

"To remember is, more and more, not to recall a story but to be able to call up a picture. (...) Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us." Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others. (2002)
I find that there is something very expressive about having one's hand on a face. Some years back I started noticing how and how often people do this. Many times it is tied to moments of intense feeling or concentration, either with the surrounding or with inner thought. I begun collecting images with this connecting theme, which I'll begun compiling here.