So how do I position myself as a travel (and street) photographer in relation to all this? How do I relate to the fact that, in many people's minds, photographing someone in the public space is a predatory gesture?
Well, it makes me want to take even more portraits. I am, as you can see, completely honest with you.
Over the past three decades, paparazzi, video surveillance cameras and companies such as Facebook have triggered, and understandably, a global thirst for more privacy, even in the public arena. Yet, despite this tense context, we have all embraced the new image technologies that have emerged over the past decade. We armed ourselves with a whole range of potentially photographic cameras. Today, we live in a world where technology allows us to collect images everywhere, all the time, sometimes with no particular intention. In more and more places around the world, people are wandering around with a GoPro on their dashboard or taking photos at 20 million pixels of themselves and their latte coffee.
Recently, I recently wrote a little introspection to understand why I started photographing the faces of strangers on the street. Their faces. What could be more private, more intimate than a face?
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