A picture is not worth a thousand words, a picture only shows one moment of many. A picture cannot tell the whole storey of what is happening, or what is happening to whom, or why it is happening. A picture can only show something that has happened but it does not tell the complete storey.
In this day and age pictures are everywhere, cell phones, email, TV, books, and magazines, just to name a few, so we tend to see the subject of the photo and not the whole story. The photo can show anything and we will make assumptions based on that photo, say we see a photo of someone who's just sitting there looking blue, some would say that that person has a hard life, or maybe they will say that the person is depressed, or has a sad life, a dull life, or they are not living life to the fullest. But maybe that person is just sick, or having a bad moment, or just plain tired, http://www.examiner.com/x-40996-Sacramento-Relationship-Psychology-Examiner~y2010m3d30-Although-pictures-are-worth-a-thousand-words-they-never-tell-the-full-story . What we see is not always what we think it is.
Of course there are photos where we see happiness and we know what the story is and there is no assumption, such as a picture that shows happiness or joy, there is no mistaking that, and some photos can be used for educational purpose, http://www.imaginenews.com/Archive/1999/FEB_1999/IMMA_MTH_FEAT01_0299.htm. Some photos actually do justice to the subject in the photo, such as war photos where non-combatants are digging through the rubble looking for food.
There are two sides to every story, and the same can be said about photos, which only shows an instant of a story and from that instant we draw conclusions based on a very small tidbit of data.
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