Dead Negative

They stare through the bars; each framed by the cross-patterning of the metal; each its own portrait. Behind, there's the square of a window; the light breaking up the bars like heat. And as you look at the picture, you see all the grids and squares of the composition: how the four guys are boxed and packaged and contained. Elliot's father was a war photographer, renowned for 'shooting the truth'. He died is strange circumstances in Paris. The mystery has never been solved. Jaspreet is Elliot's friend, target of the school bullies. He relies on Elliot's unstinting, loyal friendship. Now these two troubled threads of Elliot's life are drawing inexorably together.