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edward street: rightmove

The photographs on Rightmove, the house sales website, enable potential purchasers to evaluate a property on offer, a picture paints a thousand words. But while depicting interior space and physical condition estate agents' cameras often can't help but reveal poignant detail about the lives of vendors, and this despite determinedly trying to overlook much of the what is there, as if wishing that it wasn't there. Some properties, like this, seems to have been vacated by the elderly occupant, to be put on the market soon afterwards, largely untouched, presumably by a relative granted power of attorney, or by an executor for the estate. Perhaps as a result of the photographer's disinclination the human back-story exposed has an honesty that any attempt to illicit feeling could manage to achieve.