Who are we when no one is watching? Might that be our most authentic self?

If so, there is certainly an artist desire to capture that authenticity, and a human desire to know what that might look like in another in the hopes of relating or differing for comfort, for interest.

Let us start here, by considering photography as the temporality-breaking artform it is. Thinking about how you (the photographer) and they (the subject/s) are immortalizing a present moment in time that has not existed before instills value in the picture you are taking – regardless of reason, content, or audience.