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Of all the times you aim the camera, all the different people, it was this kid on halloween night who said after this 'why are you filming me?' and then waved his hand up. I didn't like the background, or light, but it's grown on me.

There was another kid by a corner of a wall in Oslo on the first day, so i was stood waiting and he walked past with his family and threw his hand up like 'wtf man'.

It's always, really always when i least expect it when someone says something. Like another in Belfast, by an opening of a tunnel to a train station, there was some metallic plates above, bad light, but worth a try. There was a statue to the left, two heads, so gap inbetween wait for someone to pass. Otherwise i was just floating around because it's a background. Old guy through gap, okay, stop and aim at entrance, then moved down to taxis, asian guy walk by. All in about 5-10 minutes. Above by the statue stood a woman with tattoos and kid, so obviously i thought i'd try the statue shot again. Except as I walked up she said something like 'why are filming people?' I said 'i'm not filming people, i'm taking photos'. 'I've just been watching you for 5 minutes'. 'You can't do that' etc. 'Have you taken any photos of me?' Then a gruff guy walks up and asks the same, i say no, give a card, he's like 'i don't care'. I think he didn't care but knew his gruff exterior would frighten me and was enjoying that, it was the most i felt close to being hit, it's the quick escalation of 'did you do this to me?' with the implication of wrong doing that can't be deflated, when people are angry there's nowhere for the anger to go, it just stays. I tried to explain what i was doing but she walked off and said 'get a life'.

Not allowing me to explain actually annoyed me, it's like..hang on, you've inserted wrongdoing, i can't do anything about how it looks, but it coming out of absolutely nowhere really threw me, because i stand at a lot of spots and aim, camera by hip, looking down, trying to frame, working usually with nothing. 90% of anything i say is complaining about this and it's likely boring, but it's the idea that i'd have nothing better to do than go around and annoy people that i find funny, like having people stare, think and say something like that is somehow desirable, i wanted to present the argument of 'wait, think about it logically, why else would i be doing this if not for some eventual aim?' If i wanted to annoy people i'd play knock a door run or something, throw water ballons from a ledge, there's lots of things you can do, holding a camera isn't even a guaranteed way to annoy people! You could be doing it for weeks! Of course the person wouldn't think i've done this thousands of times, they wouldn't think i have a few days left in that city and i'll probably never go there again, they aren't thinking about the final result. I don't expect everyone to get it, but it was further interesting in Belfast stood about 300 yards away from that spot, literally down the road and turn right, by a corner wall. I was stood there for a bit, visible, and while i'm obviously wanting people i'll just pretend i just like walls, so will ignore people, kneel down, pretend to be focussed. Loads of reactions there, like never more visible but nothing aggressive.

When people say things it brings it back to how absurd it is, but it's taken so long to squash all of that, and just think 'no, photography is a thing', because i've always seen it as intrusive, even if i think the results transform enough it's people used as representations rather than specifically them. I'd hope everyone would see their photo and ask 'that's me? Really?'

Because they're all unique encounters i kind of enjoy it, just the jolt of 'now? You? Here? This is another one, of alllll the photos this was the one??' but i also find violence frightening, that recent video of a fan walking up to a rapper outside a concert and his mates punching him is frightening, he didn't sense it and it knocked him out, he's in intensive care with brain damage, so i fear a random punch out of nowhere, but ultimately you never know when, or it's probably never. You can't do anything differently because you can't predict it.

I think the woman was sat outside the cafe by a table left of the statue, i didn't see her. Otherwise i have no idea where she was watching. That's more the fear, people out of view watching, it was like that with the drunk cheek scarred guy on Coney Island.

There's been more encounters, if i don't write them down i'll probably just eventually forget them, however different each is. Like the guy in London in the long coat who was like 'what are you doing? I'm a police officer, what are you doing?'. 'I'm taking photos'. 'I saw you filming'. 'I'm not filming, i'm taking photos'. 'I know the difference between filming and photography'. Given you're slow to understand, i'm not sure you do. Can anyone really be arsed trying to explain, 'ok so i try to capture the world as a dystopia and trains are these chunky shapes and the tunnel is evocative and when people are in profile walking onto a train something triggers that that is a shot'. 'If you're thinking; 'that isn't a shot, improve your photography standards' maybe you're right but let me figure that out in time'.

Fortunately most of the time my defence mechanism of having intense broken eyes freaks people out, in Oslo with the 'you're scum' he walked off when he sensed how off i am and in New York when a guy said 'this is some white supremacy bullshit' it was kind of the same.

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Of all the times you aim the camera, all the different people, it was this kid on halloween night who said after this 'why are you filming me?' and then waved his hand up. I didn't like the background, or light, but it's grown on me.

There was another kid by a corner of a wall in Oslo on the first day, so i was stood waiting and he walked past with his family and threw his hand up like 'wtf man'.

It's always, really always when i least expect it when someone says something. Like another in Belfast, by an opening of a tunnel to a train station, there was some metallic plates above, bad light, but worth a try. There was a statue to the left, two heads, so gap inbetween wait for someone to pass. Otherwise i was just floating around because it's a background. Old guy through gap, okay, stop and aim at entrance, then moved down to taxis, asian guy walk by. All in about 5-10 minutes. Above by the statue stood a woman with tattoos and kid, so obviously i thought i'd try the statue shot again. Except as I walked up she said something like 'why are filming people?' I said 'i'm not filming people, i'm taking photos'. 'I've just been watching you for 5 minutes'. 'You can't do that' etc. 'Have you taken any photos of me?' Then a gruff guy walks up and asks the same, i say no, give a card, he's like 'i don't care'. I think he didn't care but knew his gruff exterior would frighten me and was enjoying that, it was the most i felt close to being hit, it's the quick escalation of 'did you do this to me?' with the implication of wrong doing that can't be deflated, when people are angry there's nowhere for the anger to go, it just stays. I tried to explain what i was doing but she walked off and said 'get a life'.

Not allowing me to explain actually annoyed me, it's like..hang on, you've inserted wrongdoing, i can't do anything about how it looks, but it coming out of absolutely nowhere really threw me, because i stand at a lot of spots and aim, camera by hip, looking down, trying to frame, working usually with nothing. 90% of anything i say is complaining about this and it's likely boring, but it's the idea that i'd have nothing better to do than go around and annoy people that i find funny, like having people stare, think and say something like that is somehow desirable, i wanted to present the argument of 'wait, think about it logically, why else would i be doing this if not for some eventual aim?' If i wanted to annoy people i'd play knock a door run or something, throw water ballons from a ledge, there's lots of things you can do, holding a camera isn't even a guaranteed way to annoy people! You could be doing it for weeks! Of course the person wouldn't think i've done this thousands of times, they wouldn't think i have a few days left in that city and i'll probably never go there again, they aren't thinking about the final result. I don't expect everyone to get it, but it was further interesting in Belfast stood about 300 yards away from that spot, literally down the road and turn right, by a corner wall. I was stood there for a bit, visible, and while i'm obviously wanting people i'll just pretend i just like walls, so will ignore people, kneel down, pretend to be focussed. Loads of reactions there, like never more visible but nothing aggressive.

When people say things it brings it back to how absurd it is, but it's taken so long to squash all of that, and just think 'no, photography is a thing', because i've always seen it as intrusive, even if i think the results transform enough it's people used as representations rather than specifically them. I'd hope everyone would see their photo and ask 'that's me? Really?'

Because they're all unique encounters i kind of enjoy it, just the jolt of 'now? You? Here? This is another one, of alllll the photos this was the one??' but i also find violence frightening, that recent video of a fan walking up to a rapper outside a concert and his mates punching him is frightening, he didn't sense it and it knocked him out, he's in intensive care with brain damage, so i fear a random punch out of nowhere, but ultimately you never know when, or it's probably never. You can't do anything differently because you can't predict it.

I think the woman was sat outside the cafe by a table left of the statue, i didn't see her. Otherwise i have no idea where she was watching. That's more the fear, people out of view watching, it was like that with the drunk cheek scarred guy on Coney Island.

There's been more encounters, if i don't write them down i'll probably just eventually forget them, however different each is. Like the guy in London in the long coat who was like 'what are you doing? I'm a police officer, what are you doing?'. 'I'm taking photos'. 'I saw you filming'. 'I'm not filming, i'm taking photos'. 'I know the difference between filming and photography'. Given you're slow to understand, i'm not sure you do. Can anyone really be arsed trying to explain, 'ok so i try to capture the world as a dystopia and trains are these chunky shapes and the tunnel is evocative and when people are in profile walking onto a train something triggers that that is a shot'. 'If you're thinking; 'that isn't a shot, improve your photography standards' maybe you're right but let me figure that out in time'.

Fortunately most of the time my defence mechanism of having intense broken eyes freaks people out, in Oslo with the 'you're scum' he walked off when he sensed how off i am and in New York when a guy said 'this is some white supremacy bullshit' it was kind of the same.