Making a meaningful portrait of someone while they're being interviewed is a challenge. All you usually end up with is a series of images of them with their mouth open and maybe, gesturing. Not quite what I want to create. So when the interviewer was finished I began talking with this gentleman about things not related to his work.
Sometimes it just happens, you're given a gift, and when it does you have to be ready for it. In this case he paused, just for a brief moment, while talking about his grandchildren. Compassion, love, humanity, what ever you want to read into his expression is there in its purest form. No open mouth, no waving hands, just a look. The look.
For the techie mind this was captured with a Leica M9 and a 90mm f/2 Summicron using just the available light streaming thru the windows. The image was converted to black and white in Photoshop.
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