Problem with FOR XML clause

[ashishraj14]

I am trying to persist data from SQL Server 2005 table into an XML file using FOR XML clause in the SELECT statement. I have a column named “Photo” of type Image. Issue is; the FOR XML clause is returning the picture as some reference instead of binary format.
<Photo>dbobject/employees[@EmployeeID='1']/@Photo</Photo>

Writing XML file using DataSet.WriteXml() method persists the same column as binary format

<Photo>FRwvAAIAAAANAA4AFAAhAP////9CaXRtYXAgSW1hZ2UAUGFpbnQuUGljdHVyZQABBQAAAgAAAAcAAABQQnJ1c2

I have trimmed the above binary string for brevity. The XML file is used for backing and restoring data in the database.