Photograph Response (Gottfried Helnwein)

 In this photograph by Gottfried Helnwein, a man is climbing on a rope up a girl's face, as if it is a wall or a cliff. I think this picture is artistic rather than documentary because there is likely some symbolic meaning behind it, and it is definitely photoshopped because what is being portrayed is physically impossible. I believe that the man represents someone trying to understand another person, possibly the girl, and climbing her face represents him trying to "discover" her (aka understand her thoughts and feelings and actions). The scale of the man and the girl says that the man feels small compared to her and feels as if there is so much left to learn that will be difficult or even impossible. He views it as a large scale project.