Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I disagree, and I will not. Please remember I am not a visitor to their country. They are my people, and I know rather more about how they actually feel. Cheers Jayanand On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > At 10:42 PM 7/24/2009, you wrote: > >> Let every one use his own judgment - culture differs from country to >> country. I for one refuse to take photographs of the very poor, homeless, >> street dwellers, slum dwellers, beggars, etc which is a staple of every >> visitor to the third world, and it leaves me angry that you take advantage >> of people who cannot fight back, and strip them of what little dignity >> they >> possess. To me that is much worse than a woman's bottom. >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> > > Or you could reaffirm their dignity by photographing them. The first > medical mission I went on, I very carefully photographed the mission > doctors > and nurses at work and avoided photographing local campesinos. A local > girl > asked me why I was photographing my friends and not her family. Were they > not good enough to waste my film on? Was it because they had brown skin > and > were not beautiful? That's when I started staying with families and > photographing them and taking the photos back to give them. They are very > proud, beautiful people and they want to be photographed. Ask them. > > Tina > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >