Please don't drink this beer

Glass one-third full
Toronto, ON
August 2019
This photo originally shared on Instagram

We live in an age where no one in a restaurant or bar would ever consume an unattended drink because strangers are terrible people.

But there's always a flip side to the darkness, and at the back of a bustling all-you-can-play arcade long before anyone even knew what COVID was, this forlorn and fingerprint-covered glass of likely-warm beer offered up a quick photographic still-life session. Who was I to say no?

Unlike an actual photographic still-life session, however, there were no tripods, lighting tricks, or hours-long debates with myself over composition and tone. Just me, a smartphone, and a half-baked idea that this moment deserved to have its story told somehow.

They never taught me this kind of storytelling in photojournalism class at j-school. Maybe I was absent that day.

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