Faces in Time

Sometimes a face will tell you a lot about a person.

What they’re thinking. How they’re feeling.

Who they look like. Or even where they come from.

I find myself studying faces while shooting and editing the photos of my clients. It’s such a vulnerable form of art - a moment frozen in time that you can’t always predict. Which expressions were caught in that split second they maybe weren’t expecting? Would they be embarrassed? Satisfied? Surprised?

And what about my own face? What does my face look like? Not just what I look like in the mirror, but what someone sees when they study it while we’re in conversation, or when my daughter catches a glimpse of my expression behind my peek-a-boo hands, or when my neighbor sees me wave at them behind the car window.

I think, in some weird way, we’re somehow responsible for our faces just as much as we’re responsible for our words.