>>2935049On one hand, I think the composition is fairly shitty, but in a weird way, I think it actually works.
Trump is sitting in an awkward, informal, slouching position. He's smiling. His wife is in some weird model pose with fake wind (indoor wind?). She's got the hard model face going. His kid is too far to the right and making a pissed/bored face. The position of the kid is very off-balanced in relation to the architecture of the room. He needs to be more centered in front of that sconce behind his head. Ideally, though, you wouldn't have this giant gap between them. Also, those tiny toys on the floor are just sloppy and distracting. The whole shot just feels very haphazard.
That being said, I think that it weirdly works because it shows the entire disconnect between this bizarro family and their bizarro life. They're distant. They're out of balance. They're inconsistent with each other. The whole thing forced---not just staged, because staged is fine. It looks forced, as in in would never happen and they'd never really be sitting around together as a family. It's like three strangers living in different worlds.
Of course, I doubt the photographer really intended that.
