Question 1

When was the last significant moment in your life that you have no photograph of? How do you remember it? What details are in the memory? *(This is listening for the texture and quality of unmediated memory versus documented memory.)*

Question 2

Think of a recent experience you documented carefully. How much of that experience do you actually remember with your body rather than with the images? *(This is listening for the gap between documentation and presence.)*

Question 3

Is there a person in your life who you are always photographing but rarely simply being with? *(This is listening for the camera as a relational distance-management strategy.)*

Question 4

What would it mean for your professional identity to be unrecorded? To do excellent work that leaves no visible trace? *(This is listening for whether significance depends on documentation, which is the deeper question beneath the camera.)*

Question 5

Describe a moment from your childhood that no camera captured. What do you remember about it? *(This is listening for the quality of embodied memory versus mediated memory. The reader will often notice, with some surprise, that the undocumented memories are the most vivid.)*