Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]OK, I think it was brave of him to attempt the project, making sure he asked all of his targets if he could take their image. It is one thing to go out there as a PJ and shoot whatever moves and screams, but quite another to do consensual protest photography. Gotta say I place this more in GeeBee's "strangers gallery: than a protest documentation, and that is not terribly bad for his art. Good work. Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish In a message dated 3/21/2005 6:55:44 P.M. Central Standard Time, masonster@gmail.com writes: Tina, Thats probably the best way to go. Were I intending to make some sort of documentary project out of this (instead of a personal project or a project to share with the LUG) I would want to use that approach. Cheers, Dave On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:37:16 -0500, Tina Manley <images@infoave.net> wrote: > At 07:18 PM 3/21/2005, you wrote: > >Unfortunately it is > >going to only get harder for us to take photos of people without their > >permission, but asking it can be a tall hurdle for those of us who > >don't always feel "outgoing". > > The other option would be to establish yourself as a photographer > documenting this movement ahead of time. Spend time with the protestors > before the actual demonstration. Get their names and permissions in > advance, if you need them. Then, when the actual time comes to take > photographs, you will be ready, accepted, ignored and able to take actual > documentary photographs without people posing for every photo. > > Tina > > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group.