it looks like goodbye...

... but is it? does the girl standing on the edge of the water really know the guy paddling away on the banca? or is this a fiction created by the contingencies that brought them together in the frame?



but more importantly: can you really trust a photograph to tell the truth? or given the very elusiveness of "truth", does a photograph merely show its own version of the truth?

taken near the foot of the marcelo fernan bridge, on the mandaue side, june 2010