[Leica] Iraq occupation protest - Chicago 3/19/05

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Tina Manley offered:
Subject: Re: [Leica] Iraq occupation protest - Chicago 3/19/05


 > The other option would be to establish yourself as a photographer
> documenting this movement ahead of time.  Spend time with the protestors 
> before the actual demonstration.  Get their names and permissions in 
> advance, if you need them.  Then, when the actual time comes to take 
> photographs, you will be ready, accepted, ignored and able to take actual 
> documentary photographs without people posing for every photo.<

Hi Tina,
Excellent idea and if one were to pick-up on this early enough and get in 
when the signs are being made and or any sort of get together, always being 
around shooting all kinds of bits and pieces, it's the best way to establish 
oneself as a regular kind of shooter doing documentive photography. Then 
when the big day comes, it's a piece of cake shooting without harassment..

Actually it would produce the best of the demonstration because nobody would 
pay any attention to you as they'd, well many of them, would know you by 
name or action and that you were harmless in a "police sense." .

Then eventually it might make a very interesting "People in Action" kind of 
exhibition in some gallery or a great spread in a magazine.

ted