Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]bob, given the recent discussions on this list about ethics and photography, about the extent to which (if at all) 'concerned' photographers may be exploiting human suffering, about natchwey in particular, about his sincerity (or lack thereof) and/or his careerism, i do not think my question - which neither condemns nor praises, it was an innocent question - - was out of line or irrelevant. i don't know why people in general ask 'stupid questions like this' about photographers, but regarding my own question, i can explain: this is the leica list. it is devoted to photography. we have spent a major portion of the past week discussing these very issues in relation to photography and to various well known photographers. my question was asked in this context. if this were a users group devoted to newspaper journalism, television crews, or radio journalism, and the same amount of bandwidth had been used to discuss the same topic in relation to the professionals of those fields, perhaps someone would have asked the same question of them. guy >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 > >_________________________________________________________________________ >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.