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Everything about this picture is really awkward - from my stance, to the inclusion of the little boy, to the obvious frustration this English, be-suited man experienced as a result of his inability to figure out whether or not he had already taken a picture. He eventually thrust my camera back at me, muttered, and walked quickly away. He took 7 pictures. Unfortunately, this is the best one.
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This is kind of relevant
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I like to travel alone…
…so I ask strangers to take my picture. It’s an uncommonly intimate, if brief, engagement for two (or more) people who’ve never met. It almost always makes for an interesting interaction.
Usually, people are friendly about it. More often than not, they take wonderful photographs. Other times they take terrible pictures. I like both.
Submit your own. Tell us about your photographer or your subject. This will be fun!
- L
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re: taking pictures of strangers.
I was asked to take a picture of four people outside the Uffizi in Florence. And they instructed me, “NOT OUR KNEES, DON’T INCLUDE OUR KNEES.” I never asked them why, but apparently no one can know that their knees were in Italy.Ariel S -
This is a picture that I took of a stranger at the intersection of Crenshaw and Venice Blvd in LA. ”What are you doing?” I asked. ”Fucking shit up!” he replied.
Fair enough.
- L
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A 9 year old Irish girl took this picture of me at Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin. She was upset that her mom was making her go to a museum in the summer time, but confided to me that she really liked the painting Grace Gifford made in her cell (http://www.flickr.com/photos/20923094@N04/2596434610/).
Her sense of composition is not very well developed, but then again, she’s 9.
- L
