Likewise.

(I think I don't like photos in which I come out looking somehow pretty, especially in a conventionally East Asian way (i.e. pale skin, doll-eyes, long hair in tumbling waves), because they do not match the sociological realities of my views and way of life, and because I am well aware I am not a beautiful woman, and this knowledge means that those kinds of photos have a slightly accidental and unreal look to me, as if I were looking at a doppelganger. And I don't like candid photos, because there is a off-kilter and frame-frozen look about them, the pause button hit at the wrong place in the video. In any case I distrust (and maybe disdain) all photos that are not posed, for it takes either supreme self-confidence or supreme indifference for a person not to react to a camera, and that reaction is itself revealing. In unposed photos here is no inner drama, no deliberate attempt either to project or conceal, no tension between the subject's unease or bravado or desire and what the camera sees. There is no narrative possibility either.) I think I like the way these came out, because there is openess. Much like 9 years ago when instant cameras were all the rage at parties Cindy took this one of me. 'Not a good-looking woman, and flawed, but somehow not afraid of life or the camera or myself.')