It is a staged photograph depicting an urban fight scene, exhibited in a lightbox.
The picture, which was staged in a studio in Vancouver in the winter of 1994, with three actors, depicts a scene of urban violence, taking place at night, where two young men are fighting violently on the floor of a sidewalk, while a third person watches them without intervening.
The faces of the youngsters who are involved aren't seen and its uncertain if the hooded man, dressed in black, who is watching them is just an unrelated observer.
Its also intriguing the fact that the graffitis of the wall were scratched to the point that its impossible to read what was originally there.
[2][3] There are prints of this photograph at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and at the Pinakothek der Moderne, in Munich.