Closure II -- Apply to Your Picture Choices

Thanks for your efforts last night. I liked how you listened to each other, how you listened to your own stories, how you asked questions -- all of these are skills needed in any language, in any job, in any country, no? Listening, thinking, questioning, modifying-- minds at work.

Think about how a picture and text can work together. Work alongside one another. When you write "I left home", for example, you do not have to show a picture of you leaving home. You CAN think about the idea of leaving, of growing, and ask yourself what kind of picture you want to symbolize this growth ... maybe a tree bud, symbolizing the potential for growth. This requires your audience to think about meaning--"What? she was talking about taking care of an orange tree, but she showed a picture of two hands, fingers entwined ..." The audience then has to figure out the meaning of the story, perhaps about helping one another, comforting one another.
Listen, nobody really needs to see a lot of pictures of people they will not ever meet. Okay, maybe one picture. But the rest ... use closure as a means of teaching something important in your story.