Human emotion.

I was shooting this weekend for a piece for my "Fears" body of work. I was taking photographs in a manner in which I could capture people without them knowing. I got what I needed, but this image in particular stole my focus.
I stared to think about human emotion and how we regulate it ourselves and how we try to regulate others. Obviously there are gender implications to the above statement. Males should be strong and emotionless, women should be weak and full of uncontrollable emotion.

These things were in mind when I first saw this image upon my initial edit. A male and female, presumably romantically involved, shopping together. The male holding his own bag while the female holds hers. I feel like this image holds true emotion. Happiness. Both sexes happy. the male isn't dragging because he is shopping, as the female isn't loathing shopping without a girlfriend. It seems as this image breaks a few stereotypes about sexes. More specifically as they apply to shopping I suppose. But none the less it was nice to see.

TL;DR? The only question, is the emotion only real because they are unaware of the camera, would the dynamic change if they were aware?


This is all.