Focal Point: Not on your Nelly

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In discussions about photography, often a picture will be referred to as a "visual metaphor" for representing a subject, but there are those rare occasions when a photograph is a literal visual representation of a metaphor itself. So is the case with this image by staff photographer Razan Alzayani, taken while recently on assignment at the Sri Lankan Consulate, where nobody appears willing to acknowledge the elephant in the room.

* Brian Kerrigan, photo editor