People pictures fall into two categories: portraits and candid. Either can be made with or without your subject's awareness and cooperation. However near or far your subject, however intimate or ...

Left: all her photos were burnt. Right: 101 years old.

Making a portrait on a phone or ... or that other people think helps to understand you. When you have taken lots of different pictures sit down, go through your pictures with your sitter and ...

"It's got thousands of photographs of landscapes and events all through the last century and into this but very rarely do you get photos of actual people, let alone painted portraits," he said.