This is What Photographers Look Like When You Take Away the Camera – Design You Trust

This is What Photographers Look Like When You Take Away the Camera

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Ever wonder what you look like while you’re taking pictures? Orlando, Florida-based photographer Rich Johnson wants to show you. For his latest project “Behind the Mask,” Johnson had photographers pose for two pictures, one with their camera, and one without.

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Photo © by Rich Johnson

“As a photographer I sometimes look at my camera as a shield,” Johnson says. “For me, it makes it easier to insert myself in situations, and somehow feel completely disconnected from the moment. It’s as if I am wearing a mask and no one can see me.”, told Rich to PetaPixel.

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Photo © by Rich Johnson

Johnson first asked each photographer to take their camera and pretend they were taking a picture of him. After shooting a portrait of them, Johnson had his assistant quickly take the camera out of the subject’s hands, and Johnson immediately snapped a second photo.

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Photo © by Rich Johnson

“From time-to-time, I would catch myself making faces behind the camera, and wondered if all photographers did this.”

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Photo © by Rich Johnson

“It was really interesting to see the results of this project,” Johnson says. “Some were totally comfortable with it, and others weren’t. Some people did it in one take, and some had to do it over again because once we took their camera away they lost their composure.”

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Photo © by Rich Johnson

“The most difficult part of this shoot was getting the real faces they actually make while taking photographs,” says Johnson. “Photographers demand a lot from their subjects, but once you flip the camera on them, they have the same emotions and conflicts the rest of the world has.”

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Photo © by Rich Johnson

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Photo © by Rich Johnson. h/t: petapixel

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