Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/11

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Subject: [Leica] modern photoreportage?
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri Jan 11 13:38:20 2008

I'd suggest that we need to be constantly reminded about the various
miseries just outside our personal gates because so many of us struggle so
hard to shut them out and ignore them.






On 1/11/08 4:23 PM, "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net> wrote:

> On Jan 11, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Lottermoser George wrote:
> 
>> While I understand your points Steve; I hold the opinion that drugs
>> from Afganistan (and elsewhere), as well as their effects on the
>> weak among us, along with what we do or don't do about these
>> circumstances, certainly have news value. Further, we "well know"
>> just about everything presented in photographs published in news
>> sources as well as here.
> 
> seems just too much credit is given here to the  "drugs from
> Afganistan"...
> 
> my extreme sympathy goes to fellow human beings even if they happen to
> be "crashpad junkies"...
> 
> but I keep in mind, these unfortunates are spending a fortune killing
> themselves and their babies...
> 
> drug overdoses,  HIV, heart rending complications occurring all the
> time...I know...
> 
> what makes it  "newsworthy"... ?  Pinch me...is this the sixties again?
> 
> In a world so full of vast as well as innocent misery, surely there
> are other stories to tell....
> 
> and please don't tell me... "the thing that is important is that you
> can sell it to someone..."
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jan 11, 2008, at 1:23 PM, Steve Barbour wrote:
>> 
>>> The content is not new, or newsworthy,  or even revealing of
>>> anything we don't well know...
>> 
>> Fond regards,
>> George
>> george@imagist.com
>> www.imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>> Picture A Week - www.imagist.com/paw_07
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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