-Personal work-
HUNT, talks about the power of our own image over ourselves, how we feel when we’re being observed, our image it’s not ours anymore, the owner is the person who takes control of it (such as the photographer or the watcher), the hunter, and what (or who) we see in the picture is the prey.
“...there’s a little bit of a depredator in the action of taking a picture. Taking pictures to people is to rape them, because you see them as they never see themselves, you know them as they never know themselves: it transforms people in objects that can be possesed symbolically. And so, the camera is a kind of weapon. Taking a picture to someone is to commit a kind of soft murder, worthy of a sad period of time, frightened.”
Susan Sontag, On photography, 1977.