Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeffery you take me back to my days of teaching at Columbia College Chicago. Damn. I miss the classroom a whole lot. I loved interacting with those kids. They taught me every bit or more than I could offer them (with a few exceptions in both directions). Your points about privacy in the class room are of course well taken. The same holds true for any number of other private venues. Yet documentary work on the public streets remains a different case entirely. We'd assume that most people have prepared themselves to "be seen" in public; if not also photographed. And so far, for the moment, we still have the right to document public life; and I believe also work to preserve that right; with or without press credentials. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Mar 20, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote: > They also don't have a heads-up and some don't have their finest > makeup on. But some are truly camera-averse. I have several shots > of the top of someone's head. They didn't want the front of their > head photographed (so I learned their names by the tops of their > heads). > > And some of the students may have outstanding warrants or illegal > activity in their lives. I have had several prostitutes in my past > classes, and they weren't the high class escort variety. One or > more of my students has had to drop due to incarceration every > year. My three valid reasons for a student missing a string of > classes are (1) hospitalization, (2) active military duty, and (3) > being in jail. Drugs, prostitution, bad checks, etc. are not > uncommon in big cities with economic woes.