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© Chris Mendoza

It's not that I don't want to take pictures of people.  Maybe I just think that I'll be shooting on the street, and I'll hear, "Hey, motherfucker.  Did I ask to have my picture taken??"  Then they'll punch me in the face and break my camera, and I can't afford another camera at this point.

When I was in London last November, I was taking a picture of a woman getting a "fish pedicure" in Camden Market, and she said, "Not my face, okay?  Just my feet."  I had already been composing the shot that way, but I did consider taking a couple more that was contrary to her request just to be a pain in the ass.  I would make a terrible paparazzo.