By Sam Edmond | 15 August 2021 A picture is worth a thousand words. Or so the saying goes. Photography’s ability to tell a coherent story is a topic that has been explored across time and genres for as long as the medium’s existence. Sam Edmond reassesses this age-old adage at a time of iPhones, deep fakes, and climate justice. In 1948, at the age of only 30-years-old, photojournalist W. Eugene Smith produced a series of images for Life magazine titled, Country Doctor.