Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, on my first trip to Ethiopia I met a couple of young Ethiopian men on a long bus trip and became quite friendly with them. They were very helpful to me in various ways. One evening we were chatting after dinner and they told me that as young children they had been starving in one of the refugee camps. It seems that they were all desperate to be photographed by the ferenji journalists because they believed that they would be somehow taken into the camera itself, and when the photographer got back to Europe they would be released from the camera and they would have a happy, well-fed life of ease in Europe. These 2 men survived and are now fully trained chemists, thanks to their own efforts, to the aid that eventually arrived in Ethiopia and to the photographers and other journalists who raised our awareness of the problem. Those of us who feel moral indignation at all the suffering in the world would be more effective if we addressed our concerns to the politicians and to the shareholders of the multinationals rather than to the journalists. Don't shoot the messenger. Cheers, Bob >From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net> > >This all reminds me of a photograph I once saw of a starving child laying >on the ground, surrounded by half a dozen or so photographers, all taking >photographs of this child. > >Dan C. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.