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Objectifying Expression - by charlie squire - evil female

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My hearing isn’t the best (in my left ear, it’s basically shot), but what’s left of it seems to be particularly sensitive to the clicks of camera shutters. It’s not hard to hear the difference between a film camera and a digital camera and the camera on a phone, where the shutter only sounds if the phone is Japanese or the owner is a Baby Boomer afflicted by their generational inability to set a cell phone to vibrate. Being photographed is something you can feel, it was something I felt inside the art museum, my being flattened into an unwitting actor in someone else’s tableau, an image created for purposes beyond my knowledge. The first time I had my photograph taken, I asked if they could delete the pictures, unnecessarily justifying my request with the explanation that I just wanted to look at paintings and not serve as fodder for someone’s social media profile or Squarespace portfolio. One woman excitedly tapped my shoulder to show me the pictures of me she had taken, sitting on a

My hearing isn’t the best (in my left ear, it’s basically shot), but what’s left of it seems to be particularly sensitive to the clicks of camera shutters. It’s not hard to hear the difference between a film camera and a digital camera and the camera on a phone, where the shutter only sounds if the phone is Japanese or the owner is a Baby Boomer afflicted by their generational inability to set a cell phone to vibrate. Being photographed is something you can feel, it was something I felt inside the art museum, my being flattened into an unwitting actor in someone else’s tableau, an image create

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