[Leica] ...now PJ

[imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)]

Same thoughts and questions came to my mind.
"The Concerned Photographer"
<http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/concerned.html>
and the book from 1968
<http://www.amazon.com/Concerned-Photographer-Photographs-Bischof- 
Kertesz/dp/B000BYG608/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251579457&sr=1-1>
certainly attempt to answer the question.

I suspect that the answer rests in
how much real and quality time
the photographer spends
with their subject(s).

Whether one captures only the "horror"
or
the humanity and story within the situation
will depend on the depth of one's "concern"
and the time devoted to the subject.
The difference between the isolated grab shot
of a homeless person on the street
and the photo essay about that same person,
photographed over weeks or months,
including discussions with them,
will appear in the photographs.

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist

On Aug 29, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Steve Barbour wrote:

> the caring photojournalist as agent for change, as advocate for the  
> downtrodden...
>
> how best to work in this direction by showing images of good, of  
> the positive...
>
> examples?
>
> in lieu of the monstrously bad...?