Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 29/8/00 2:58 pm, Mark Rabiner at mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com wrote: >> <Snip> It must be a relief to >> have someone like Kyle around who doesn't react with horror and hushed >> voices to what is a non-life-threatening form of self injury. >> >> i found the 'I love you' picture both disturbing and moving and it said a >> lot about the whole subject. >> -- >> Johnny Deadman >> > I don't think the scarring issue means you are dealing with someone deeply > disturbed. > I'm sure MANY of the people I know I deal with are disturbed. it is just much > less obvious. > It is hurtful for US to witness these scars. It is hurtful to listen to a > stuttering person try to talk. > > Over the decades I could have made the "ethical" decision to not shoot women > who > appear to be dieting heavily but so far it appears I've contributed to no > deaths. Had it gone the other way who knows how I'd be feeling about it now. > ...anorexia being the prevalent female mental disorder which relates to > photographers. > > 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 We were talking a while back about the most wrong anyone had ever been on the LUG. Speaking personally, I think that's the most RIGHT anyone's ever been in the time I've been here. - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com