Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina: I find such an attitude outrageous! Think of the many photos that we would be without if such an attitude existed historically. By extension of this "logic" I, as a middle class person should not be allowed to photograph "poor" people? Should the rich folks not be allowed to photograph me? Outrageous! I suppose if you had done a from below that you then would be accused of exploiting the families that had actually taken the pictures because YOU were exhibiting them. Can't win. Ken Wilcox At 7:18 -0400 7/18/0, a fine scholar, Tina Manley wrote: >Dear LUGnuts - > >The Project Workshop in Santa Fe with Sam Abell was very good. Sam is a >wonderful teacher; however, I learned something that was both enlightening >and disturbing. > >My project is "Las Familias" - an exhibit (possibly book) of my photographs >of Honduran families. I learned that many galleries will not accept my >project because it is politically incorrect - I am a photographer from the >first world photographing people in the third world. To make the project >more acceptable it was suggested that I involve the families in the project >by (a) giving them a camera and letting them photograph their own lives (b) >getting them to write comments about the photographs. (a) wouldn't work >because the people I visit don't have time to take photographs - they spend >all of their waking hours trying to feed their families (b) might work with >a tape recorder but many of the people I photograph don't read or write - >and several of the families in the project were killed by Hurricane Mitch - >do I exclude those photographs? > >What do you think about political correctness? Gallery owners and >publishers who reviewed our work seemed to think it is an important issue, >but it honestly never occurred to me. > >Leically, > >Tina > > >Tina Manley, ASMP >http://www.tinamanley.com - ---- Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits preferred---> <wilcox@tir.com> <kwilcox@gfn.org>