Portret niezamierzony

“To be honest, I do not consider myself a portraitist — not a true, official portrait photographer, anyway. Of course, when necessary, I can make a portrait of someone, and it may even turn out well — but there is never any guarantee! I do not have at my fingertips all the words needed to persuade someone to move their head like this, exactly like this, or maybe a little more to the left, no, perhaps to the right, yes, that’s good, perfect… No, rather, I wait for a moment of distraction or embarrassment on the part of the ‘subject,’ so that they themselves assume — or try to assume — some pose of their own, and only then do I press the shutter.

Naturally, in a street situation, it may happen that the person does not even realize they are being photographed, that someone is following them with a…