Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:22 AM 10/23/00 -0500, you wrote: >You'd hear the night before that you should be in such-and-such a place >the next day >at 10:00 and presto! just line up and click away. After we were done, >everybody would >go home, me with my Leicas (OT) to stay with a Palestinian family in >Rafah, right by >the border with Egypt. > >Emanuel Lowi >Montreal The same thing happened to me in Baghdad after the Gulf War. Photographers were not allowed to leave the hotel without our assigned "government minders". They would take us to a certain part of the city where a crowd was assembled waiting for us. The "America is Satan" demonstration would begin as soon as the photographers showed up and end as soon as they left. I told my "minder" that I was there to photograph how the war and the sanctions were affecting the children of Iraq. Since that was considered favorable to the Iraqi government, I was allowed to go in hospitals, mosques, and playgrounds to photograph children; otherwise, I would have been with the herd photographing the government-organized demonstrations. Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com