Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]><< Today I started another pre-school project. > The kids are wonderful, so energetic, so busy, so alive! >> > >How lucky you are Henry. These days to start any project which involves >children here in the UK you have to be positively vetted by the police to >make sure you are not a paedophile. It has made UK photographers neurotic >about anything involving children at all. People have even been arrested for >photographing their toddlers at bathtime, and a colleague of mine nearly had >a breakdown after his motives were questioned when he took a photo of his 5 >year old granddaughter in the bath. > >Gerry Sometimes I think about this issue with a children's project. I've decided to just put them out of my mind (mostly out of mind but keeping just a reminder) and go forward. Its kind of like riding a bike along the edge of a sharp drop-off. You just have to look where you're going and know you'll get there. I know that if I worried too much about the possibilities for misunderstanding of this work I might not do it. Anyway, the parents love the pictures and I enjoy making them. I enjoy doing family and children photography as a counterpoint to commercial work. After a week involving a couple of hundred product shots on white seamless I'm ready for something with some meaning. Its can be a hard way to make money but often easier to deal with than widget number 191 blankly staring back at me from the white sweep! Henry