Faces fascinate me. I can look and look and still not really get to grips with what makes us all different, even between men and women, we all have the same parts, nose, eyes etc but the subtleties are endlessly absorbing and that's even before you take into account our emotional states. In an ideal world I'd like to have people just happy to sit for 15 minutes, not talking, just sitting whilst I watch, walking around them, trying to notice all the small things that make them them and not someone else, noticing the similarities and the differences, their calmness or hesitancy. Putting all the bits together to make that one whole person.
But usually what happens is I get through the roll of film as quickly as I can, knowing that they have given me the best present they could by allowing me to take their picture and feeling that I must hurry so as not to take advantage of their good nature and their time. Twelve photographs taken in 3 minutes flat and hoping at least one shows what I saw when I looked through the glass.
I live in Salisbury, Southern England with my husband and three teenage children, Snowy the dog and many much loved cameras.
by Victoria Slater (UK)
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