“I have a large beautiful wooden camera. I am a quick talker, I can convince people in a few seconds because I am sincerely interested in them, but I am really interested more in capturing what I see in them. It’s not that I want to be their friend, it’s that I see their life and it is amazing and I want to put it in an image. It’s a short but deep connection. Then I go back to being alone but have one more lightening bug in a bottle. One more piece of evidence as to who we are.”
- Judith Joy Ross (who’s arguably the best photographic portraitist there is) on photographing strangers in the new issue of Ahorn
Reblogged from Bryan Schutmaat
