you don't always have to know what
you're doing when you're doing it
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it's all unpredictable as a photographer
I don't want to look at people as
objects I sort of want to find other
entry points to making photographs that
bridge a relationship that's different
not only between me and the photographed
person you could say the subject but
also the public or the person who is not
in the photograph who's looking at the
photograph and how do they relate to the
person they see in the photograph those
are the issues that I'm constantly
preoccupied by
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so it's not delighting in just the
perfection of the frame though the frame
is incredibly important to me but it's
the relationship of that I have with a
person in the frame when I think about
the work of Prince treat girls of course
I'm on the street
they are also random encounters chance
not planned not intended I meet them on
the street over a long period of time
multiple years from the age of maybe
some of them were eight or ten too into
their teens later teens there was a lot
of hanging around doorways you know
sometimes individually sometimes in
small groups but then I also went to
them with them to the beach or I would
get on the subway and we had somewhere
else so I was following them as well as
finding them just in odd moments of
their own lives not really thinking
about what's so obvious to look back on
now is how very very slowly they were
shifting their our sense of self their
projection of self their posing of their
selves one to the other so I'm looking
at all of that I'm absorbing all of that
I'm sort of assimilating into the little
world that they're creating
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of course to be as much of an outsider
as I was when I first went to Nicaragua
and then progressively to other parts of
Latin America and when you're a stranger
in a place which is in conflict no one's
there to protect you unless you have
relationships so it's very it's very
essential for people to understand why
you're there and again it's not
necessarily what you say it might be how
you act I tend to not expect that I'm
always going to make a photograph I'm
okay about just waiting until I feel
like people feel okay about my being
there I feel I can't belong there but
again it's nothing it's very often
unspoken it's kind of how you look at
people how you listen to people not just
what you tell them about what you're
doing but also how you how people
understand why you're there
and what you're hoping to make and what
when you get back
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