If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.
Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.
I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.
I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job.
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.
I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.