Ever take pictures of total strangers? Photographers do this because they love to document and make photographs. Most people don't do this because photographs to them are personal. When I was a student many years ago I made this portrait in Boston during a day trip to take photographs. I have not seen this man since and since it was 25 plus years ago I'm not even sure if the gentleman is even still with us. I asked him if it would be ok if I took his photograph, something I rarely do because I'm usually much more interested in capturing people as they are--not how they pose for a picture. I believe those pictures tell us more about ourselves and where we've been--perhaps even a little bit of how we got there. I think photographs for photographers are personal too, but in a different way--they show us where we've been and who we've come across, even if for just a fleeting moment. I still remember many things from my past that I didn't photograph, but those things change in our memories and get cleaned up of extraneous detail and are focussed only on the important things we want to remember. Photographs help us remember the facts(though admittedly sometimes we end up remembering the photograph more than the actual event). Photograph by Richard Sayer--circa 1984-5