I am interested in intervening in a performative way when others are making constructed images of their daily life by not engaging with the viewer while being photographed. In the times that I have already tried this it has upset people or at the least disappointed them. I am certainly not interested in losing the friendships that I have in my life but I do find it powerful and interesting that when one person is not engaging in the staging of the photograph it seems to cause a breakdown in the meaning or even the perceived purity of the recorded event. It is as if my intervention ruptures the self-constructed facade that many have already learned not to see.

 

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