Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:26 PM 8/8/2007, you wrote: >Simply because Kyle didn't start out to shoot a book representing every >colour in the rainbow nor ethnic cross section!! Get real! When a book idea >like this is born it's not to represent all the colours in the rainbow, but >about people who volunteer their services to be photographed for a potential >book about guns and folks who own them! We ran into this problem with the Families of Abraham project. Because we were working with several grants, we had to be politically correct and ethnically and socially diverse with all of the photos in the project. We had to find Black and White and Latino families in the Jewish, Protestant, and Muslim communities who were willing to be photographed for one year. We had to include conservative, moderate, and liberal branches of all three religions. In the eleven families we chose, we did manage to include almost every diversity but were eventually criticized by one or two people because we did not include any Ultra-Orthodox Jewish families or any families with parents of the same gender. The only reason they were excluded is because we couldn't find any who were willing to be followed and photographed for a year!! I think it was wonderful that we got as many diverse families to agree to be included. If we had included every subset of every racial, ethnic, and religious group, the project would have been totally unwieldy. I'm assuming that Kyle ran into the same problems. We have had so many problems here in the American South with quotas! If everybody would ignore color of skin and ethnicity and religion and just see everyone as humans, the world would be a better place! Tina P.S. The Families of Abraham project closed in Charlotte last week-end with over 31,000 visitors having seen it. It was held over for 3 months by popular demand. The project is now being packed to travel and is contracted out with a company that specializes in photography exhibits. It may be coming to a city near you soon. If so, I hope you'll go and see it!