"The act itself is like brushing your teeth," he said. "I'll just take the picture and get on with the rest of my day. It's not a holy ritual or anything."
他说："拍照就像刷牙.我拍下照片,然后继续过一天的生活.这并非任何神圣仪式."
Baden has taken other pains to maintain the same aesthetic. He has consciously not grown a beard or mustache, and his hair remains simply styled.
为了让照片保持一贯的风格,拜登还付出了其他代价.他有意不蓄胡须,发型也一直很简单.
"I have to turn all these variables into constants so that I'm not distracting from the aging process," Baden explained.
拜登解释说："这些都保持不变,这样才能看出照片所表现的衰老过程."
Besides mortality, Baden says the project touches on the notions of obsession, incremental change and perfection.
除了死亡,拜登说照片还触及了痴迷、渐进的改变和完美的概念.
"As much as I try to make every picture the same, I fail every day," he said. "There's always something that's a little different, aside from the aging process."
他说："我尽可能每天都拍一样的照片,但每天都失败.除了衰老,总有那么点儿东西是不同的."
Approaching 11,000 photos, the changes in Baden's appearance over time don't appear dramatic. But in 2001, Baden underwent chemotherapy to treat prostate cancer and became noticeably thinner.
在大约1.1万张照片中,拜登的外貌随着时间的改变没有太剧烈.但在2001年,拜登接受了治疗前列腺癌的化疗,明显消瘦了.
The cancer is now in remission and, as later pictures show, Baden quickly bounced back. The only lasting change from that time, he says, has been his eyebrows; they never quite grew back.
目前他的病情缓解,就像随后的照片中那样,拜登迅速恢复了.他说,那段时间带来的唯一持久变化,就是他的眉毛,它们没有再长回原来的样子.
英文来源：美联社
