Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, everything I would have said about this thread has already been said by others - I am in favour of anybody taking pictures of any culture, provided of course that one observes the normal courtesies. Most of my own photography of foreign cultures has been in Ethiopia, and I would strongly support the paragraph quoted below. Depardon's photographs of Ethiopia capture the country that I've been to more accurately than any other photos of Ethiopia, including mine :o(, that I know of. I've been to most of the Ethiopian places in his excellent book 'Voyages', and he really has done a great job. - --- Bob mailto:bob@web-options.com > So, that the work of photojournalists such as Salgado, Natchwey et al, is > not representative of the "big picture" of life in a given country seems > obvious enough - Singh's pictures of India and Depardon's pictures of > Ethopia, to give just two examples, are very different indeed from the > endless stream of images featuring emaciated, impoverished children that > one has come to expect from western news media. But, of couse, no picture > of two smiling Ethopian girls amusing themselves on a streetcorner is ever > going to make the front page of a major western newspaper.