Most people look horrible anyway in pictures as it doesn't capture their personality or anything. It is mostly phoniness or unattractive people that clearly aren't so good looking they are paid to model.
People are insanely self centered and it bores me. i can see why native american freaked out about pictures taking their souls.
I come from a large family that has taken pictures all over my life. There is not a non event that they all don't take copious pictures of and have to share, share, share. WHat a waste of time and energy. I quit going home when I got tired of having cameras shoved in my face 24/7 when I visited. Just wanted to visit and go away undocumented thank you.
I will never understand.
Oh Lawzy! Tell me about it!! Husband’s family had a photography studio; so the photos have been ever-present. His brother used to flash flashbulbs in your face at every family gathering. Once he snapped one of me when I’d just woke up from a nap sitting in a chair. He then took it and put it on one of those weirdo-warp programs that made people in photos look like one of those cypress stumps from Reelfoot Lake. (He kept an album of people he didn’t like done like that.) I suspect he showed my photo to an ex-boyfriend. When I finally wised up that HE DID NOT LIKE ME, I quit going down there for awhile. - I know what you mean, though, it’s aggravating, and seems a bit self-centered and egotistical.