great photos from my contacts / 23-08-2007: lauren.rabbit - severed-crime scene II

an image of one of my favorite photographers: so i'll probably be biased - but so what - the title gives a clue, we see a scene of a crime - the dislocated legs of a person in a corner of a claustrophobic room, stains (of blood?) on the wallpaper - the set looks like that of a cheap hotelroom, but it could be as well elsewhere - the light is sort of dingy, the emphasis is located at the most unimportant spot of the scene - we don't know what was going on here (really a murder?) - the photo transports uneasiness, fear (horror), uncertainty - it's more an ambigous riddle than a document - and exactly this is what makes this photo so impressive - this is a wonderful image