Psychic pain can be as profound as physical pain and it can be more debilitating than all but the worst physical pain. This photo captures the psychic pain of a young person very well. The lighting is strong and moody. The photo is nicely cropped. The subjects large and expressive eyes are perfectly framed by the rest of the composition. The photo does have a distraction, that wedge of unexplained material that blocks off the subject's mounth and cheek. Is it a chair? A window frame? A doorstop? A cello? This leads us away from the subject