Responses

homeless, sitting on a box, cardboard sign, people passing by, ignoring, money tray, desperate, in need, pun, attention-getting, messy hair, business suits, casual wear, pondering, grey, in motion, in a sea of people, sidewalk, downtown area, challenging people's reactions, jacket, cold day, no food, water bottle, leather shoes, hoodie jacket, staring into the distance, looks intelligent

Underlying Compositional Structure

people moving away from the man, stillness versus motion, grey coloring, sitting versus standing, hurried manner versus killing time

Symbols

Money collecting tray, cardboard sign, business suits, unkept facial hair, clean-looking sidewalk, heels

Reporting verbally the image what the image reports visually

A man wearing a read hoodie, jeans, and leather boots is sitting on a petite metal box holding a cardboard sign reading "In need or just lazy?".  There are people passing by wearing business suits and heels who, with the camera's help, are shown to be walking swiftly past the man on the box.  The man has a money tray placed on the ground in front of him, a liter water bottle to his right, and an overturned styrofoam cup beside the bottle.  He is faced to the right of the cameraman, and is gazing down the clean-looking sidewalk into the flow of people.  The whole picture has a grey tint to it, as if to say the man is depressed.  However the man himself has an intelligent look about him, and his sign challenges the oncoming flow of pedestrians to stop and think about what he has written.