If they want a photograph, then just take it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We don't want to own people's photos. We want to help them communicate with friends in whatever way makes them happiest.
When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't get that back. It's soul-draining.
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
You always want to come back with an image that's interesting visually, and you hope to get something from the person you photograph that's different than other images you know of these people.
Certainly, people feel awkward when they have their photograph taken. They want to see it, but they don't want to see it.
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Everyone takes pictures, so you need to have your own opinion.
When you take a picture of someone, never show it to them right away. If they don't like it, they may erase it.
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.