This is one of the many photos by EJ Bellocq. EJ Bellocq took a lot of photographs of prostitutes but he scratched most of their faces out. This photo tells a deep story, anyone who looks at it can create a story line in their head. When I look at this photo is a see a troubled girl, one who needs to prostitute for money purposes obviously, not because she enjoys sex or men. She is reaching out to what looks like a butterfly decal on the wall and to me that symbolizes that she is reaching for the purity and childhood that she never got to have or the one that she desperately misses. Above her is what looks like a flag that would go in a college dorm room, it says Vermont on it, which could be where this person is located or it could just be an old University souvenir. What I like most about the flag is its position, as the girl is reaching for her youth that she never got, the flag is even higher up to show that her future, or an education is completely out of reach for her to even try and get. The most important part about this picture is her face that is scratched out, because to men all they are looking for is a body and they don't care what her face looks like, or what the woman even has to say.