[Leica] IMG: Home, II

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

On Apr 3, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Ted Grant wrote:
> Jayanand Govindaraj Offered:
>
>>> My reaction was a personal one, and I will stick by
>
> it. If I wanted to, I could fill a book with one afternoon's  
> shooting.<<<<
>
>
>
> Jayanand mon ami,
>
> But good sir now you've put the gauntlet to the ground! Why not, if  
> as you
> say.. "in an afternoon" why not do a book as Dr. Steve Barbour with  
> his
> situations of life?

thanks Ted, though I believe this may be even more difficult.
I believe I understand what you are getting at Jayanand, but it won't  
take an afternoon.
That attitude sounds callous I am afraid, and shows more about you,  
than it would of your subjects.
To do such a project with the caring and dignity that you request,  
would take great patience and tact.
It has the potential to present people with understanding and  
compassion, to show their dignity, even nobility.
I believe such a project can be done,  should be done.

I say this because I believe you care very much, and might actually be  
sensitive and receptive,

Steve





>
>
> I also realize your phrase is offered as a "verbal description."   
> Please
> take no offence.
>
> ted
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> Tina,
>
> As you see fit, but I live here, and I know what the ground reality  
> is. I
>
> know, though, with your background, that you would do it only for  
> what you
>
> felt was for their good.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jayanand
>
>
>
>
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> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Tina Manley <images@comporium.net>  
> wrote:
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>
>
>> At 10:58 PM 4/2/2008, you wrote:
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>>
>
>>> Tina,
>
>>> Excellent photographs, and only too real,  but I deliberately do not
>
>>> take
>
>>> photographs of such people, it probably takes off the last veneer of
>
>>> dignity
>
>>> they have left. Besides, in India, its too easy.
>
>>> Cheers
>
>>> Jayanand
>
>>>>
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>>>> http://www.pbase.com/image/95069931
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>>>
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>>
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>> I respectfully disagree, Jayanand.  I believe it gives people a  
>> certain
>
>> dignity to be photographed.  Many, many years ago when I first  
>> started
>
>> photographing in medical clinics in Central America, I was trying  
>> to be
> very
>
>> respectful and only photograph the doctors and nurses as they  
>> worked.  One
>
>> man came up to me and asked to be photographed.  He said something  
>> like -
>
>> "Why are you only photographing the North Americans.  Are we not good
> enough
>
>> or handsome enough for you to use your film on us?"  Since then, I  
>> have
>
>> tried to show the beauty and the dignity of the people all over the  
>> world.
>
>> The vast majority of the people that I photographed in India were  
>> very
> proud
>
>> to have their photos made.  In this particular photo, I would not  
>> have
>
>> photographed only the mother lying there by the side of the road,  
>> but the
>
>> little boy sitting there so patiently by the side of a busy highway
> waiting
>
>> for his mother to wake up gives the photo hope - to me.
>
>>
>
>> I use my photos to raise money for self-help organizations and to  
>> raise
>
>> awareness of conditions in other parts of the world.  You would be  
>> amazed
> at
>
>> how ignorant most North Americans are about how the rest of the world
> lives.
>
>> I gave a talk last week about India and two of the comments were -  
>> "But
> all
>
>> of our jobs have gone to India.  Every time I get someone on the  
>> phone for
>
>> any kind of tech support, they were in India.  How could there be any
>
>> homeless people when their economy is so much better than ours?"    
>> and  "I
>
>> always thought India was the dirtiest country in the world, but the  
>> people
>
>> in your photos are beautiful.  They make me want to visit a place I  
>> never
>
>> even considered."
>
>>
>
>> Of all of the 47 countries I have visited so far, India is both the  
>> most
>
>> beautiful and the most disturbing.  I have never seen such poverty
> anywhere
>
>> else but I have never met such gentle, kind people either.  I hope  
>> other
>
>> people will be able to see that in the photos that I'm working on  
>> now.
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>>
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>>
>
>> Tina
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>>
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>>
>
>> Tina Manley
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>> http://leicatraveler.blogspot.com/
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>> www.tinamanley.com
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>>
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