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How to Analyze a Photograph

1. Introduction: One or two sentences where you have to say what it is (a photograph, an urban plan, a graphic, a cartoon....).
   
2. General Description.
   
• First describe what you see
  
• Later describe what you can deduce from what you see
  
• (Here we will need to identify the topic that the photograph is trying to show and write the characteristics of this topic that are represented in the photograph)
  
3. Causes
   
4. Consequences
   
5. Some possible solutions
   
6. Personal opinion (it is not necessary, but if you want to write your opinion do it here). (I don't recommend it unless you want to say something interesting).
   

 

Some Key Vocabulary

• For describing what you see: I see, I can see, I observe, I notice...
  
• For locating items in the photograph: In the foreground (en primer plano), in the background (al fondo), at the upper left corner, at the upper right corner, at the lower right corner, at the lower left corner, at the left, at the right, at the top, at the bottom...
  
• For deductions: I deduce, I assume, I figure out, I suppose, I infer, I understand...
  
• For the causes: this situation is caused/produced/provoked/generated/created by
  
• For the consequences: Because of this/that, for this reason, as a result, therefore (por tanto), in consequence, consequently, so....
  
• Giving your opinion: I think, In my opinion, In my view, To my mind, As far as I am concerned.....
  
• Concluding: In conclusion, To conclude, To summarise...