My favourite aspect of photography is portraiture.
Great portraits are the result of a relationship, a dynamic in which the technological is only peripherally involved. The photographer’s empathy is truly what is put to the test. Cognitive empathy, emotional empathy and compassionate empathy.

Without a scoop of each the dynamic is not complete and the portrait will not show the subject’s inner light!

- Jan Schoof

“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”
— Robert Frank

“A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.”
— Edward Steichen

“It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”
— Paul Caponigro

“If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.”
— Eve Arnold