An American Tune

Like a lot of good photos it tells the viewer something but creates questions as well. The most dramatic and stark picture is the one to which you refer but while the far left lady may be looking at that or the horse on the ground the second lady on the right has raised her finger to make a point or is about to point and she definitely isn't looking at the Iraqi picture so what holds her attention?

Fully agree with Pent, Even a non prof. writer can come up with several short stories that start with this photo.
Very well done, your work makes one want to go back to Edinburg for one more visit!

Excellent 'storytelling' here - a great example for narrative photography !

...and all I can think of when I see this is, "what the hell is that kid doing? and where are his parents?"

@BradS They had gone to the Hearts game and had left the kid to work because he was a Hibernian supporter ( local soccer rivalry). Sorry couldn't resist this piece of whimsy as one with a bit of Edinburgh knowledge.

The kid, if that is what he/she is, had not really registered with me. He/she may not be as young as you think. If he/she is helping then his parents may be part of the group setting up the photo gallery.

@pentaxuser It is very interesting to me that you and macfred see a story here...and that the kid with his hands on the display hadn't really registered for you. I don't see a story. My eye bounces between the lovely young lady at left and the kid with his paws on the display and it's like that is all I see here. Eventually, my eye pauses briefly on the horse head and it goes right back to the woman at left. Eventually, the horse head floods my rational brain with a question and I am forced to read the text to figure out what is going on here. Oh, and...there is no doubt in my mind that that is in fact an ill behaved child...somebody needs do him the favour of explaining to him that is not acceptable behaviour.
Anyway, It is so interesting....that we see and don't see so differently.

Well guys, the fact you are having these discussions show that the photo meets the criteria for art.
Anything that moves, impresses or makes you wonder, as far as I am concern, is Art.
This is a great shot because it has moved all of us.In different ways, but move us it has.
that simple.

Every time I look at this photograph my eye immediately wanders off to the woman on the right and her index finger. Is there a story here? I'm not sure what's going on and I took the photograph. From what I remember the boy (I believe he is a boy) isn't with the two young women in the photograph, and yes he has his hands all over the photographs. When I took the shot I was sitting on one of the garden benches they have in the gardens there. I think both women are looking at the dead horse. I always thought that perhaps the boy was mimicking the posture of the Iraqi prisoner but then again maybe not. This is a cropped version. I've looked out the uncropped version which I prefer to this version. When I get the print scanned in I'll post it here. Looking at the uncropped version I think I used a 28mm zeiss prime on the G1.

Thanks gentlemen for your insight and observations on this photograph.