Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Page 6 and part of 7 are empty. Next pages are OK again until 15, which is empty again. It's a selection I made of 3 very charged (shooting) days of Senegal, that I visited with a group of advertising people invited by a media central. I went with them to do the photography. This media central is aiding some projects in Dakar via micro credits for their 4th year now. They're are sponsoring small cooperatives of women, built a house for a local charity organisiation that was inaugurated when we were there, and so on. When I was there, I didn't have the time to realise how miserable most people are living over there. But despite all this misery, they are happier than most of us spoiled western folks. A very humbling and meanwhile disbalancing experience. If you go there, be sure to take somebody with you that speaks Wolof: a lot of people (esp. women) don't like to be photographed because of their religion (Islam). The others that don't like to be photographed are the ones that want money. I had to shoot completely against my nature. Normally I take few and thought through photos, and here I had to do a reportage of about everything we saw. I was shooting all the time, and was stressed because I didn't know if the output would be OK. Finally it turned out well, but if I'd return, I'd take a few days to walk around without shooting, noting what was interesting, and then I would return with an intepreter to do the actual shooting. I missed something we drove by that was incredibly photogenic because of lac of time: on a part of the Dakar beach, young men come together to train for the national sport, wrestling. Riefenstahl(s Nuba are nothing to it... And I didn't get a chance to shoot it... Thanks for looking, Tina. Your appreciation means a lot to me. Philippe Op 4-jun-06, om 22:28 heeft Tina Manley het volgende geschreven: > At 04:16 PM 6/4/2006, you wrote: >> For folks with some time: >> >> www.fullflavor.be/photography/senegal > > Philippe - I want to go! Why were you there? I like best: > 342, 497, 522, 770, and 884. Are there more after 1199? There are > only broken links after that. > Thanks! You've given me one more destination to get to. > > Tina > > Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA > http://www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >