Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I see nothing wrong with documenting it, too. But only if it is done with respect and permission. > From: Paul <paul@paulhardycarter.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 10:27:54 +0200 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] I really disagree with this policy > > I disagree with the policy too. I believe that to fail to document this > human catastrophe would be neglectful. > > Yes, this is those people's home, but I have photographed in peoples > homes many times. I'm damn sure that if you spoke to them and gained > their trust most of these folks would be happy to let you work. It's > what being a documentary photographer is all about. > > This code of privacy is always a major issue, but when you think of the > effect that pictures from, for instance, refugee camps in Africa have > on western consciousness, it is not only worth breaching a polite code, > it is essential. > > I am not, incidentally, taking about the howling packs of "press" > photographers using their hi-tech cameras like machine guns and their > flashs like disco lights. Keep them out for God's sake! > > It's all a question of attitude. I remember a conversation in Sarajevo > - long after the war - when a survivor was telling me how much everyone > had detested the photographers who, during the siege, would turn up > with their long lenses and sit in an armoured car and wait to get a > picture of an old lady getting shot by a sniper on her way to the > market. They hated them almost as much as the snipers themselves. I > pointed out that I was a photographer too, and that I'd just been > taking pictures of him. He said it wasn't the same thing at all. > > P. > > ******* > Paul Hardy Carter > www.paulhardycarter.com > ******* > > On 7 Sep 2005, at 02:24, Don Dory wrote: > >> All, >> For all practical purposes, the shelters are these peoples homes, >> their residences. Wouldn't you want some privacy? These people have >> already lost almost everything they have including family members. >> Can't we give them some dignity and not poke cameras in their faces? >> >> Don >> don.dory@gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >