A question that can encourage us to see a person with more justice is one which Eli Siegel once suggested a photographer ask of someone whose portrait he wanted to take:

“What quality would you like to represent you in a photograph?”

I asked this of a man selling newspapers on a street corner. He told me how difficult it was to earn a living, and that he wanted people to see he was proud of doing honest work. As he spoke, he looked up, a lovely smile on his face, gazing into the distance. If not for the seeing-eye dog, we might never know that he was blind. That patient and faithful dog is contained within the pyramidal outline of the man's form, a comment on how much they are of each other's lives.