Owning the Gaze
Returning the photographer's gaze - sometimes with a proud and knowing smile, an indignant look of resistance and mimicry, or a long studied stare as the observer becomes the observed. The gaze is returned, the observer othered. Subject owns the gaze for a frozen moment.
A proud Maasai herder (warrior age-set) vogued this pose near the crater rim in the Ngorongoro Highlands of northern Tanzania. Elegantly adorned with glass-beaded necklaces, a medallion and wrist band, an amber bracelet, and stretched earlobes with glass-beaded sleeves and copper pendants. Ngorongoro, Tanzania, East Africa. High resolution Noritsu Koki QSS digital film scan, shot with a Pentax Espio 140 pocket camera (38~140mm AF), circa 1997. expl#46
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Owning the Gaze
Returning the photographer's gaze - sometimes with a proud and knowing smile, an indignant look of resistance and mimicry, or a long studied stare as the observer becomes the observed. The gaze is returned, the observer othered. Subject owns the gaze for a frozen moment.
A proud Maasai herder (warrior age-set) vogued this pose near the crater rim in the Ngorongoro Highlands of northern Tanzania. Elegantly adorned with glass-beaded necklaces, a medallion and wrist band, an amber bracelet, and stretched earlobes with glass-beaded sleeves and copper pendants. Ngorongoro, Tanzania, East Africa. High resolution Noritsu Koki QSS digital film scan, shot with a Pentax Espio 140 pocket camera (38~140mm AF), circa 1997. expl#46
© National Geographic Yourshot (Editors’ Favourite with Editors’ Note, July 2018). Story and assignment: “Not Just a Face.”
Documentary Portraiture | Personal Faves | National Geographic
Flickr Gallery: The Power of Documentary Portraiture