Abstract
In this article, I propose that typical news photographs of drug users comprise an image genre that supports an inaccurate and destructive media discourse on drug use. I use a social semiotic analysis of an image of drug users that appeared in the Daily Mail to explicate how visual resources in a genre-typical news photograph support this destructive discourse. I then examine a second image of drug users by photographer Eduardo Diaz that appeared that same month in the Telegraph. I demonstrate how semiotic resources within the Diaz image rupture the boundaries of the genre in ways that could support a more rational media discourse on drug users.
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