Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] les fleurs du mal: was OT: Nachtwey (was Personal portfolios of ...
From: "Bob Walkden" <bobwalkden@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 21:40:49 BST

Hello,

a person's charitable donations are normally a private matter between them, 
the charity, their banks and the taxman.

It's a complicated relationship between people like Salgado and the 
charities. A lot of Salgado's work is done for the charities and for the UN 
agencies such as UNICEF - ie they commission (and pay) him to do it. They do 
this because he is a professional and, I assume, very cost-effective for 
them. This is all clearly detailed in his books in the acknowledgements 
sections.

Why is it that people only ask stupid questions like this about the 
photographers? Why don't the text journalists, the TV crews and the radio 
journalists come in for the same kind of completely undeserved criticism and 
rude enquiries into their private affairs?

Regards,

Bob

>From: Guy Bennett <guybnt@idt.net>
>
>out of curiousity - does any part of the proceeds of natchwey's (or
>salgado's for that matter) various publications and/or exhibitions go to
>charities helping the victems of the tragedies they are documenting?
>
>if so, to whom?
>
>if not, why not?
>
>guy

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