Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And why would you felt like you needed to oblige them? Mark William Rabiner > From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 20:26:11 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] doing it for real > > At 07:50 PM 5/5/2009, you wrote: >> I was surprised when I got to the sequence that covered the "Doctors >> Without Borders" there were no photos depicting the doctors. #15, >> children running after the doctor's vehicle, #17 woman with her >> child sitting in the clinic. >> >> Where are photos showing the doctors? Did the photographer not take >> any? or were they just left out. >> >> For me the takeaway was that there was an agenda in this and in the >> end I felt it did not make it's mark on me. > > Doctors Without Borders, or Medecins Sans Frontieres, are very, very > particular about how they are photographed. They have their own > publicity photographers and usually do not allow anyone else to take > photos of the doctors at work. I had taken some after Hurricane > Mitch in Honduras and got a call from MSF asking me not to use them > for anything without prior approval. I did manage to get approval to > use one but it was a real hassle. > > Tina