Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:48 AM 2/29/00 -0500, you wrote: > This may be a shade of the anthropologist's "participant >observer" effect...or it may have simply been my acceptance among friends. > > Buzz Hausner I have never had a problem photographing the indigenous people of Central America but that is probably because I am accompanied by people from the grass-roots development programs who work with the communities regularly. They may not know me but they know the people I'm with and they understand that we are there to try to help improve their living conditions. Being able to stay for several days and live with, work with, and eat with the people also results in better photos than a "shoot and run" expedition. They also know that I will be returning and bringing them copies of the photos. I always take a formal, posed family portrait just for them. The Golden Rule still works in most situations! Leically, Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com