Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good point, David, and it leads to another, uglier point... If one should only have native African - read Black - photographers shoot in Africa, then should one only have native Swedish photographers - - read White - shoot in Sweden, and bar Black photographers from shooting there? What crap. This reminds me of the mind set on American newspapers only a few decades ago when "Negro" news was assigned to "Negro" reporters or "Negro" photographers - and of course there were then VERY few non-white reporters or photographers working on major paper, so there was little "Negro news" covered. B. D. leica@davidmorton.org wrote: > > polylux@gmx.co.uk wrote: > > "Want pictures from africa? Ask african photographers." > > So what geographical rules would you impose on working photographers? Should > a London-based photographer be allowed to photograph only in London, or > would he or she be permitted to work throughout England, or perhaps as far > afield as Scotland or Western Europe? Is it really right for a photographer > based in affluent North London to take pictures in the poorer parts of the > East End or South London? > > -- > David Morton > dmorton@journalist.co.uk > > "The more opinions you have, the less you see." -- Wim Wenders.