Remember the deeper subject and find a way to express it
If you can make your photograph more than just an image of a Muslim woman at prayer—making it in such a way that it reveals emotion or captures a very symbolic gesture—you will have made an image that is about prayer itself. Capture an image of a man alone in a church, in a telling posture and with the right visual clues, and you will have made a photograph not just of a Catholic man at his prayers but an image about wrestling with ourselves and with God. What are those right visual clues? It is your job as the storyteller to make those choices. But what you should be looking for are the symbols, gestures, and emotions that the broadest number of people resonate most deeply with. The moment ...
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