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In a movie, if you have two bank robbers who dash into a darkened warehouse to hide from the cops, you're suddenly viewing a dark screen, but it's still believable as a warehouse. In still photography, there's no way a black picture is going to conjure up bank robbers in a warehouse. Still photography just isn't a narrative medium in the same way as film. Photographs never explain anything; the limits to what photographs actually demonstrate and offer needs to be rigorously understood by photographers. Otherwise you end up with elaborate supporting captions or vague, wishful fantasies about what the pictures might be about.
