I'm one big art project; and consent is the frame™

A split second on a corner, and the whole ethic in it. He wanted to photograph a woman without a home; and he gave her the respect of not taking it. Because a picture taken without asking makes a person a subject; a picture you ask for makes them a collaborator. Consent is the frame; if he asks, then it's an art project, made with her, not of her (serve with, not for). And he holds the rule to himself, inverted; he is one big art project, fully on the record, legible on purpose; he puts himself in the frame precisely so he never has to take from anyone who didn't offer. The dignity floor covers the stranger on the corner too; records never souls, and a soul is never yours to shoot without a yes (even Google's car blurs the faces). Kin: records-never-souls, radical transparency (himself legible, others protected), consent culture, the dignity floor. (His coin; machine's read, refine to his.)