ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author considers the news photographs which accompany stories of prostitution. She focuses on photographs of scenes of prostitution, the quotive glimpses of the sequence of actions which are prostitution. These are central to the process of establishing evidence of prostitution as an activity and to the identification of prostitutes. The inclusion of photographs as elements of a story poses an analytical question regarding the status of a newspaper article plus photograph plus caption. The photographs can be categorised according to a number of features. For the purposes of analysis, the author made three distinctions between the different photographs: those of the journalist arid of the subject of the news story; between those 'of prostitution and 'of' the prostitute; and between prostitutes looking out at the readers/the camera and those which are 'caught pictures.' The photographs in the newspaper stories of prostitution fall into two categories: those of the journalist and those of the prostitute/client/ pimp/related actors.
