

Disposable-camera photograph, short lens, close, hand-held and slightly crooked, at the height of a supermarket aisle with the stock running to the vanishing point. Other people's groceries crowd it above, below and either side — rows of competitor cartons, a shelf-edge price rail and a promo barker — dense enough to read as a real place rather than a set. Two cartons of cold brew stand off centre among the stock, each one a different brand carrying a different style, the hero pack in the name in enormous caps running straight off both edges of the label, plus a separate small flavour ticket in a contrasting colour angled across one corner with a wide screaming mouth drawn in heavy line as its motif, ultra-heavy stacked caps knocked out to white, the name SLOW THING, and a small flavour ticket in a contrasting colour and a barcode used as a design element. Direct on-camera flash: a hard bright hotspot on the nearest packs, a fast falloff to dark at all four corners, a hard flash shadow thrown behind whatever is closest. Visible film grain, slightly soft focus, a little chromatic fringing at the high-contrast edges, the colour pushed warm and contrasty the way a drugstore print is. The location's own colours blown warm, with the hero pack the one saturated thing on the shelf. Offhand and badly taken — caught on the way past rather than arranged.