A real photograph in the observational documentary genre, captured on 35mm film with a 35mm lens at f/5.6 for generous depth of field and open visible grain. A single soft overcast daylight key from high front falls evenly across surfaces with loose open shading gathering lightly under ledges and folds, finished in a plain desaturated grade with honest midtone contrast and unpolished texture.
Vertical 9:16 frame. A high oblique view down the length of an emptied living room with a floor of weathered grey-brown oak boards, dull and not golden, the window wall along the top edge and the camera standing at the near end looking down. Where furniture stood for years the boards stay richer and darker in two clean shapes against the sun-bleached pale wood around them: one large rectangle in the middle where a sofa sat, and one long narrow strip along the left where a bookcase leaned. A small potted sapling in a terracotta pot stands in the exact centre of the large rectangle, its shadow short and soft.
One cardboard moving box with its flaps folded open sits near the bottom left corner. The walls are plain white, the box is plain unlettered brown cardboard, and a tall window at the top lets in grey daylight that lights the floor evenly.
