[Leica] Women

[ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)]

Excellent point, Tina.

One of the things you hear about the homeless is that they are  
invisible, not that they hide, but that others refuse to look at them.  
They are not spoken to or interacted with in any way. It is part of  
the puzzle of reducing the problem.

I frequently enjoy (though not always) conversations and interactions  
with the "street characters" I meet and photograph.

But, perhaps it is not so easy to distinguish the line between  
exploiting and acknowledging the otherwise faceless as human beings  
with worth and lives.

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/



On Jul 25, 2009, at 10:47 AM, Tina Manley wrote:

> At 10:42 PM 7/24/2009, you wrote:
>> Let every one use his own judgment - culture differs from country to
>> country. I for one refuse to take photographs of the very poor,  
>> homeless,
>> street dwellers, slum dwellers, beggars, etc which is a staple of  
>> every
>> visitor to the third world, and it leaves me angry that you take  
>> advantage
>> of people who cannot fight back, and strip them of what little  
>> dignity they
>> possess. To me that is much worse than a woman's bottom.
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>
> Or you could reaffirm their dignity by photographing them.  The  
> first medical mission I went on, I very carefully photographed the  
> mission doctors and nurses at work and avoided photographing local  
> campesinos.  A local girl asked me why I was photographing my  
> friends and not her family.  Were they not good enough to waste my  
> film on?  Was it because they had brown skin and were not  
> beautiful?  That's when I started staying with families and  
> photographing them and taking the photos back to give them.  They  
> are very proud, beautiful people and they want to be photographed.   
> Ask them.
>
> Tina
>
> Tina Manley
> www.tinamanley.com
>
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