I am often asked how I make such intimate street portraits as this one without even speaking the language of my subjects. This image is a good example of my approach. I want to seem like a snapshooting tourist. I use a very small camera for such shots as this, one that looks very much like a harmless point and shoot model. (It is not – the Leica D-Lux-3 is a full-featured wideangle pocketable camera.) I never hold a camera up to my eye, either – I hold it away from me and look at the large LCD viewfinder from a distance. In that way, he can see my face, and see my enthusiastic response towards everything around me but him. I saw this man hanging out over the narrow street and angled my camera towards the opposite wall and distant figures walking ahead of me. I kept my eyes on them. Because of my 28mm wideangle lens, he is in my picture as well, although he does not know it. I never confronted him – I kept my head turned elsewhere as I made this image.