This photograph is typical of the style of photography that Nan Goldin has forwarded within the art arena for the last thirty years. The image has a causal quality to its photographic style, akin to the qualities of the photographs that we take of our families and friends at social and domestic events. Goldin's photographs are refering to the intimacy that we can often reach in our amateur photographs but Goldin's contribution to contemporary art photography has been to bring this quality into the public arena of the art world. In this photograph, printed much larger than snappy snap style embedded in the uneven flash lighting and photographic 'red eye' that we see, Goldin captures an intimate moment, after the couple have, perhaps, argued and now attempt to compose themselves for the camera.