I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It took me a long time to get comfortable with the idea of being photographed by a moving or still camera.
No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.
As you get a lot of exposure, a lot of people looking at you, you have to take it more so how you carry yourself, how people view you. You have to worry about your image.
People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish.
It's cool when people know you more, but I like people to treat me regular when they see me. I take pictures. I don't really be big on people looking at me.
I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.
I like to talk to people and, obviously, to photograph them.
I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore.
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.
I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.