Research - Jeff Wall

I have studied the work of Jeff Wall before and always found his work extremely interesting in terms of narrative and storyline hidden deep within the images.

In this photograph, I can see a man, facing away from the camera, in a room full of bulbs and lights, a well illuminated room. The room is chaotic, messy, but a typical artists workplace (we like to work in mess and chaos sometimes!). He seems to be engrossed in what he is doing, although I am not sure what it could be. Jeff Wall produces a lot of staged narrative photograph, and this is a great example. You can almost hear the man in the photograph's cry for help, maybe the lights are a desperate attempt to get someone to notice him, save him from a nightmare he is living? Or maybe he feels content in his room, and the lights make him feel warm and happy? If I could see the mans face I would be more certain, but Wall has been clever and hidden it, so it becomes an open structural narrative!