Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Apr 6, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Steve Barbour wrote: > I've thought a lot about this George...on the one hand the impact > is on people, and on a massive scale...how best to convey that ? In my experience "taking on an assignment" as a documentary photographer (or journalist) always results in a shift of consciousness. I had preconceived notions and expectations about this topic. As I actually began to look around my community with the question, "where's the evidence?" I saw things that I didn't see before. I live here and drive around most days and didn't really notice the rather phenomenal increase in empty retail and office space. The people I'm talking to also seem to deny and / or not notice changes. > ie the people and the scale...? It's happening on a large scale; however, not all at once. Slowly, one person, one family at a time. The headline stories tell us about bankers and millionaires and Ponzi schemes. It's much harder to find the people who have been laid off, lost their insurance, etc. > Almost any selected (even powerful) single image or more images, > can be found without trying too hard during the best of times, how > to demonstrate the reality, the change, the scope... using images, > now that we are experiencing bad times...? Correct. Those are the questions. And only opening our eyes, meeting people and asking the right questions directly will we discover the answers - the real stories. That's the assignment. > On the one hand the project seems surprisingly easy, yet > ultimately surprisingly extremely difficult... When I originally phrased the assignment I thought the same thing. Easy enough. I've since come to the same conclusion. Extremely difficult. And, for me, will be on-going (between attempting to stay afloat myself). Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist