Susan said it all

Taking a photo is always accompanied by distance. And that's exactly one of the reasons I love photography so much: because, with the lens between me and the world, I'm still in the world, but without participating in it in the same way, to blend in. Behind a lens you look at a world, and so you are inevitably thrown out of it yourself. That can be delicious.. Taking a photo is also a way to 'refuse' having an experience, to 'narrow an experience down to a search for the photogenic'.

Susan Sontag