Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/16

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Subject: [Leica] IMGS: Children of the World
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:31:40 -0500 (CDT)

On:Thu, 16 Apr 2009Philip Clarke <nod at bouncing.org> wrote:

>...massive snip...
>So maybe Tina has got some great pictures, 
>but it's not photojournalism in it's current form and in my opinion it's 
>not suitable for showing to children. If unity is a theme then there 
>should be a representation of all classes, creeds, castes and colours; 
>that's certainly not my agenda, the pictures miss the intended points 
>and though there may be stories behind them and they may be good stories 
>the showed compilation doesn't work. 
>... another snip...
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I took Tina's gallery to be, "Here are some kids I've seen in my travels", 
not some
kind of essay on the state of humanity.  She has plenty of photos that could 
do that
for another context.

I think many of us would like to see your work.

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
UPAA POY 1978
University Information Technology Services
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/