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>Have you ever captured an important moment in a stranger's life, /p/?
No, but by choice.
When I first started photographing my professor assigned a 'street photography' assignment and suggested that we shoot the Taste of Colorado event in Denver. I had a good friend at the time accompany me to the event. After we parked and were walking to the event I see a homeless dude in an alley. With some confidence I see an old laying the alley way and say "that dude is dead". I am convinced the dude is dude dead but my friend (who is from California) convinces me he is homeless and just sleeping. Several hour later as we are returning to my car we pass the same alley. In the alley the old homeless dude is now covered by a white blanket and several other apparently homeless people and paramedics stand around him. Past them is an ambulance. As I raise my camera a young boy crying looks up at me with such a vision of hatred that I stop and do not take the photograph.
His expression is burned into my memory. I can see it now. I do not take the photograph. I have never been so sure of a decision in my and have not been so sure since.
Here's a photograph of a shaving booth from that day.
