This is not my maxim, these are words of a Baltic photographer. I remembered them because I myself have been trying to work like this. A mask drops off his face. Apprehension and indifference disappear. And the eyes change.
Reciprocal interest shines forth, ignited by kind feelings.
I have seen many times that people are involuntary looking harder at photos where eyes are luminous in this way. And they get transformed themselves. It is a kind of expansion of the good. This is how an old-timer at Chukotka, Vladimir Sertun, explains his attitude to photography. His photographs refuted his words.