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Do you notice how we look for the most suitable stranger in the street to take our photograph for us. I noticed myself vetting strangers in the street today for their suitability to press a button on my camera. I astounded myself with the internal process of analysing who would be the best stranger to press a button – ‘No, I won’t ask this old lady because she’s too old and looks cold. I will wait for someone more suitable… ‘No, that person is too young and not yet mature enough… ‘No, that person is too Chinese or looks a bit Chinese and might not know what I am asking!!’ My Lord, a Chinese hermaphrodite albino would understand you if you talked to them in Welsh as long as you have a camera in your hand!!
DT
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Have a look through your photos and see just how many strangers are in them; especially photos taken in public places. There are people walking past; people in the background and even up close and personal who are complete strangers. Now, have you ever thought just how many strangers’ photos you are in – some probably framed on walls or on top of fireplaces. Your face is framed in the bedrooms and living rooms of people you have never, and will never meet. You don’t know these people from a bar of soap yet they have your photo on their wall and in their photo album. There’s also a chance you’ve been inadvertently added to a personalized photo gift from someone you don’t know to someone else you don’t know. How weird is that? There may be calendars, cushions, greetings cards and tea coasters with your face on it in the homes of complete strangers.
Your image has likely made it overseas too – to a Japanese dining room, a German hallway, and an outhouse in Papua New Guinea.
DT
