Ed Kashi, Seeing Eye-to-Eye

Ed Kashi, Seeing Eye-to-Eye

Why do photographers avoid photos that have eye contact? “We don’t want to exist in our pictures,” says Ed Kashi, whose exhibition “Eye Contact” opens in Brooklyn this week.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/seeing-eye-to-eye/

One day, I thought: “This has happened to me for 30 years. I could walk down the street anywhere in the world and my camera — I think it’s my camera, I don’t think it’s me — my camera elicits dirty looks.”