"I know," he says, laughing, "and, often, I'm even closer than it seems in the image, maybe just a couple of feet away, but the wide-angle lens makes it appear that I'm further away.
Beset by media reports of warlordism, kidnapping and narco crime, they seemed trapped in the image stakes somewhere between Somalia and Afghanistan.
As arcane as most of this material may seem, some of the images seem modern in their bold simplicity.
At her first live performance, though, Summer seemed to wallow in the image.
To Wali, the value of the rehabilitation seems to lie in the image of competence, international cooperation, and compliance it projects, not to mention, he says, that it keeps the prisoners' active and limits their time to plan escapes (Shawshank adventures appear to have been quite common in the older prisons).
Such remarks would seem in keeping with his public image as America's leading literary renegade.
Upon our own inspection, it does seem like key words in the image do match up with the text from the book.
We seem to find comfort in the image of today's supercharged undergraduate sitting in her dorm room, eating chocolate ice cream straight from the carton, regretting all those AP courses she took in high school.
But the images also seem, in a way, to invite us to reconsider everything about that trying time in a different light.
Khalilzad, who was born in Afghanistan, seems to enjoy the image that he has acquired as Afghanistan's American viceroy.
