“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” Duane Michals

I think that this is the challenge with portrait photography. Like the quote states, anyone can take a picture of someone's face, but it takes someone special to capture not only a person's outside appearance, but a little bit of their character. It should make you stop and spend some time looking at the image. It should grab you, and create the feeling that in some way, you know a little something about that person--without reading a single word about them.