Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Harold Gess wrote: > > > > When we talk of Africans who are we talking of? The San people of southern > Africa, the Nguni people, also of southern Africa but racially and > culturally very different, the diverse peoples of central Africa, the > Ethiopians, the Egyptians? Or are we talking about the Afrikaners, or the fourth generation white Kenyans, or .... ;-) BTW, I agree whole heartedly with what Harold posted, and only add the line I just added to twit the original poster, who made the proposterous suggestion that, in effect, only melenan enhanced African-born photographers can or should be photographing suffering in Africa....which of course quickly gets us to only women photographing subjects related to women - child birth, for instance, only gay photographers photographing gay subjects... August really is the silly season, isn't it....? B. D.