"This is the real intimacy of these photographs—those marks of self-consciousness that would seem to indicate a barrier to intimacy; intimate because those marks of hesitancy, questioning, and uncertainty are real, and Danny allows them. This is the gift Danny has given Chester to allow Chester to keep photographing when he doesn't know exactly what Chester is looking for, to be vulnerable to the photographic process, to contribute to that process in which he becomes vulnerable."

from Robert Kotchen's afterward