Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wow. For days I see little other than these threads about "Bokeh/Nokeh" and "Noctilax" whizzing by, and then Mark casually mentions this encounter with a would-be model. There's a wake-up.///Dick Baznik ________ At 11:58 AM 8/29/00 -0700, Mark Rabiner wrote: >I had an elegant 28 year old women come out of the dressing room (who was a >nurse) wearing a bathing suit, two piece. We were discussing shooting her >modelling portfolio and if she needed to get in shape much more first. >So it was a shock when I saw she had cigarette burn marks all over her body from >parental abuse. >I was the first person she ever allowed to see those burns… > which I guess meant having never gone to the beach or having a much of a love life. >Anyway i didn't end up shooting this womens model portfolio but I was strangely >flattered that she would take the first step of allowing someone to see her >scars and that this person would be me. >She burst into tears briefly and then went back to being a nurse at the hospital >where she worked in this neighborhood. >A necessary catharsis it seemed for her to get on with her life. >I ran into her sometimes and she smiled at me nicely a kind of trust was there I guess. > >I think we interact with people with all kinds of problems all the time. We >don't know WHO will show up at our doorstep for a picture and what their life's >baggage has amounted to. > We just have to do the best we can without PHD's and try to treat these people >like normal humans so that someday they can become normal humans. >Not isolate them or treat them like eggs. >Markwr