I think that photos capture things better than videos do so many times. Something about video feels unreal, like a life on repeat. I don't even like watching old videos of myself before the brain injury: I don't seem like myself. But photographs? They seem far more tangible, alive, vivid. They play on our dark and light sides. They capture the life - or lack thereof - in our eyes. And you're right in that there is beauty in desolation. I see it, too. That kind of beauty often seems more - real, if that makes sense.