Two Portraits and Three Quotes

The Good Life Maybe?, Barcelona, 2025

“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed.”

—Susan Sontag, On Photography

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

—Edward Steichen

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”

—Diane Arbus

Here are two recent people pics that I liked, both captured with the iPhone.

The above of a very relaxed transient on the street… And below, a happy friend with the neighborhood cat.

Can you match the above quotes with either of the two images?

Joan and Cat, Collbató, Catalunya, 2025