Pack Shots
Posted by sepial at June 14th, 2007
I hate cigarette smoke, but smokers can make for great photos. Smokes are both excellent delivery devices for addictive drugs and wonderful props: They relax, distract, and sometimes illuminate—literally and metaphorically—the subject. In a way cigarettes do for shots of adults what toys do for shots of children:
Many of the photographs in this BBC slideshow about the writer Alan Sillitoe’s life as a smoker are superb.