RE: [Leica] Re: OT: Shame on you, B.D.

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

I don't get the subject line...I was defending Nachtwey....


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Bob Walkden
> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 6:02 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: OT: Shame on you, B.D.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> on my first trip to Ethiopia I met a couple of young Ethiopian
> men on a long
> bus trip and became quite friendly with them. They were very
> helpful to me
> in various ways. One evening we were chatting after dinner and
> they told me
> that as young children they had been starving in one of the
> refugee camps.
> It seems that they were all desperate to be photographed by the ferenji
> journalists because they believed that they would be somehow
> taken into the
> camera itself, and when the photographer got back to Europe they would be
> released from the camera and they would have a happy, well-fed
> life of ease
> in Europe.
>
> These 2 men survived and are now fully trained chemists, thanks
> to their own
> efforts, to the aid that eventually arrived in Ethiopia and to the
> photographers and other journalists who raised our awareness of
> the problem.
> Those of us who feel moral indignation at all the suffering in the world
> would be more effective if we addressed our concerns to the
> politicians and
> to the shareholders of the multinationals rather than to the journalists.
> Don't shoot the messenger.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bob
>
>
> >From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
> >
> >This all reminds me of a photograph I once saw of a starving child laying
> >on the ground, surrounded by half a dozen or so photographers, all taking
> >photographs of this child.
> >
> >Dan C.
>
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