You think the only thing looking at you is this steel thing, but behind the camera is this living, breathing person operating the camera whose job it is to watch you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Looking into the camera creates a special eye and soul contact.
What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything I see gets transformed into a private sketch or painting in my mind, stored away for future reference, future evidence, future ammunition.
You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.
I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things.
Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.
In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created.
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
I'm someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of my screen and think, 'Someone could be watching me.'
I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
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