I don’t take a lot of pictures of people. Even with their permission I sometimes still feel uncomfortble. What do I really know about them? What followup connection will we ever have? Maybe it’s because I’m not sure that I have any other purpose than wanting to capture an interesting face in an interesting setting that I don’t ask people to pose for me very often.
Photography is too easy. It’s not like painting or sculpture or composing or writing. How much of you is actually in a picture you take? Yes, you frame a shot and tweek your settings but the creative process is not what’s dominant. The technology is.
I took this picture nearly six years ago in Manhattan. The woman was selling stuff out of a cart on a street corner. I asked if I could photgraph her and she agreed. Since then when I look at her I realize I may have taken her picture but she was more powerful than the camera and its lens. She saw right through me.
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