Re: [Leica] Political Correctness

[Wilber Jeffcoat <jeffcoatphoto@sumter.net>]

Tina: Enjoyed our chat, do put to much stock in this sort of thing. Some folks
can't be pleased no matter what you do. Follow your own vision, someone will
see the light and work with you. I wonder what this attitude does to the work
of HCB, or for that matter the work of the folks from National Geographic I
guess that's not PC either!
Hang tight my Lady,  the sun will come up tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheers Wilber GFE OAO2

Tina Manley wrote:

> Dear LUGnuts -
>
> The Project Workshop in Santa Fe with Sam Abell was very good.  Sam is a
> wonderful teacher; however, I learned something that was both enlightening
> and disturbing.
>
> My project is "Las Familias" - an exhibit (possibly book) of my photographs
> of Honduran families.  I learned that many galleries will not accept my
> project because it is politically incorrect - I am a photographer from the
> first world photographing people in the third world.  To make the project
> more acceptable it was suggested that I involve the families in the project
> by (a) giving them a camera and letting them photograph their own lives (b)
> getting them to write comments about the photographs.  (a) wouldn't work
> because the people I visit don't have time to take photographs - they spend
> all of their waking hours trying to feed their families (b) might work with
> a tape recorder but many of the people I photograph don't read or write -
> and several of the families in the project were killed by Hurricane Mitch -
> do I exclude those photographs?
>
> What do you think about political correctness?  Gallery owners and
> publishers who reviewed our work seemed to think it is an important issue,
> but it honestly never occurred to me.
>
> Leically,
>
> Tina
>
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> http://www.tinamanley.com