This image is titled an instructional aid.It is a conventional photograph 30x40 inches made on RA paper. In the image an artist's model is acting as the teacher explaining a photograph (that is of the photographer wearing a tuxedo) to the photographer shooting the scene. The class has divided their attention, some paying attention to the teacher/model and others looking back at the source of the image which is the photographer's camera looking down onto them. This picture and other images from this series were made between 1989 and 1991. Previous to the creation of these pictures, most of my photography was documentary work but I had become sceptical of the documentary style as a mode of self expression and so I began this project ...until you see the whites of their eyes... as a personal re-examination of my role and interests in making photographs. This picture states some of my concerns about photographs as a learning process for myself and it is also intended to question the photographer's motive as an egotist in an entertaining way.