Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I just don't know why these people seem to feel like they can control who photographs them and under which circumstances and how the pictures are going to be used afterwards. No one else in the world has this control or presumes to. Except guys with big guns during a war. And on a military base. Are the free lance photographers of the world their private Public relations army? Yes they do very nice things in the world it does not mean the run it. Mark William Rabiner > From: Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 04:55:06 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Conversation: [Leica] doing it for real > Subject: Re: [Leica] doing it for real > > And why would you felt like you needed to oblige them? > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > >> From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 20:26:11 -0400 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] doing it for real >> >> At 07:50 PM 5/5/2009, you wrote: >>> I was surprised when I got to the sequence that covered the "Doctors >>> Without Borders" there were no photos depicting the doctors. #15, >>> children running after the doctor's vehicle, #17 woman with her >>> child sitting in the clinic. >>> >>> Where are photos showing the doctors? Did the photographer not take >>> any? or were they just left out. >>> >>> For me the takeaway was that there was an agenda in this and in the >>> end I felt it did not make it's mark on me. >> >> Doctors Without Borders, or Medecins Sans Frontieres, are very, very >> particular about how they are photographed. They have their own >> publicity photographers and usually do not allow anyone else to take >> photos of the doctors at work. I had taken some after Hurricane >> Mitch in Honduras and got a call from MSF asking me not to use them >> for anything without prior approval. I did manage to get approval to >> use one but it was a real hassle. >> >> Tina > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information