Photography is a strange thing--perspective plays a major role in how a scene is captured. I've hung from cliff edges trying to photograph the intensity of a drop and stood directly under a work of architecture in attempt to translate its magnitude; but it's never the same as being there in person. Standing behind the lens of the camera, I find it helpful to give a reference point, to provide my audience a basis for comparison.
Sometimes that's a person, sometimes it's drawing out the contrast between two opposites. Sometimes the image never translates unless an audience has experienced the scene for themselves.
People are a lot like that--we stand by and try to understand the nature of a person, what drives them to make a decision, what motivates them to excel, or fail.
I think trying to capture a person by looking through one angle of one lens is a lot like taking a photo, without a first-person perspective--or at least tremendous insight--we should to recognize there is always more to the scene to consider.
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