The analysis of a man whose hobby and profession was photography is described, and the overdetermination of this vocational choice is made explicit. Photography gratified the patient's voyeuristic and exhibitionistic tendencies; the eroticism of vision substituted for frustrated oral wishes. Photography was a means of achieving active, visual focus on the external world; defensively, it was a way of controlling vision and of re-enforcing difficulties in differentiating inner and outer reality. The camera was also incorporated into the patient's body image.