Being associated with this woman with a restless gaze, photographed in a Dutch colony while embracing her sad and tired children, deeply disturbed me. Her expression of escape from being reduced to the object of her life, during an act of western registration, strongly shook me. The fact that my gaze 'guarded' by a camera that shoots suddenly, without even giving me time to pose, corresponds to her emotionally makes me go back to Thérèse Rivière to wonder what posing time she gave her subjects to smile at her, but it also makes me strongly question whether a gentle approach can be considered as such in the grander scheme of an evolutionary science (a logic into which anthropology, political science and art history fall). The camera knows that there are stories that will not have eyes to return its gaze.