Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In another life I shot health segments for CNN and later for the ABC station in New Orleans. It was my experience the Doctors would magically change when the cameras arrived. It did not take long however, for them to get engrossed in what they were doing, and I would "become invisible." I have tons of shots in O.R.s, in churches, and on sidelines, among other places that seems like my massive self has disappeared. That is technique, just as surely as the way that I hold a camera is. I don't think for a moment that they have totally forgotten me, or that I am really invisible to their eyes. If you walk into a convenience store in West Monroe, Louisiana wearing Birkenstocks and shorts, the crowd in there will react much differently than if you come in wearing muddy Cammo overalls. That's very different from entering a surgery suite with Doctors you have established a relationship with over many weeks. Also different from a home in Honduras where you've joined a family for daily activities and operate in a fly on the wall mode. I've spent time in both surgical suites and tiny huts in rural Honduras, and I believe my resulting photography was truthful; but I'd bet that the dynamics of both places operate differently without us there. Sonny On 1/13/08, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote: > > Sonny offered: > > >>My experience with Doctors suggests that they ALWAYS act more "official" > > when a camera is present.<<< > > Hi Sonny, > > But you're saying that in relation to a short time, maybe an hour or so > with > the doctor? Not over a two or three week or months of working with them > daily? > > ted > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >