"Photographing Otherness"

Can portraiture become a provocateur demonstrating the range of complexities, emotions, and aesthetics while simultaneously visually demonstrating who we are in a wider range? How we identify ourselves may be categorically different from how others categorize us. The repercussions from these discrepancies resonate in notions of authorship throughout not only in the portraits of bodies of work, but in every day simple acts of photographing. How do you find compassion for "otherness?" How do you represent "otherness?" How do you visually represent "otherness?" What are the considerations? Are they yours, as the photographer; or, are they the sitters, or are they both? Photographic images are like languages, we may not understand different languages, but we can all understand what a photograph tells us. The time is far too dangerous for miss-communication