1. With a partner, select a photograph in this book to analyze. Individually, jot down some notes about the “languages”

the photo uses. Aidan Grey is a freelance graphic designer in Denver, Colorado, and former director of photography for Home&Abroad

(H&A), a travel planning website.

He has 13 years of graphics expertise, including contracting with photographers, publishing images in print and on the Web, and designing logos.

Aidan believes that a picture is worth a thousand words, but not necessarily in English.

“There’s a different kind of eloquence in graphics because we get to use many additional

‘languages’ simultaneously—

color, texture, composition, line, light. Red is one ‘word’ and says one kind of thing, while blue is another and says other things.” In other words, it’s important to be sensitive to the “linguistics” and semiology

(signs and symbols) of images.