Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]But you chose happy smiling (well apart from the out of focus kid with tears) children in under developed circumstances and haven't balanced the assignment at all. There's no indication of moving forwards in those pictures, India is reduced to candle light and children behind barbed wire, South America to dirty clothing and water. I find it remarkable that you regard these images as showing people improving their lives. If you see only happy families then I suggest you look again, because you really really are giving an entirely different impression of other nations. I don't have an agenda. These images are trite, as an assignment it is unbalanced, as a body of work it is patronising. Good colour balancing though. Tina Manley wrote: > At 09:08 AM 4/16/2009, you wrote: >> I personally find it more offensive that you would dismiss a serious >> point with such a fatuous facetious remark. I find it more offensive >> that you would condone the dismissal of other nations as being backwards >> and perpetuate the myths that other countries are only to be thought of >> as charities, to your children. So tell me about manners then, tell me >> when questioning the appropriateness of a subject matter for children is >> impolite, yet to reduce the children and their mother countries to >> objects of pity is not ? (That's a rhetorical question because I am >> being impolite when I suggest that you don't have the intellectual >> capacity to issue an intelligent rebuttal). > > Did you even look at the photos?? I do not present these children as > objects of pity. They are not objects of pity!! The children are > happy, playing, smiling - just like children all over the world. My > whole point is that the people of the world are all more alike than > they are different. I do not show other nations as being backwards. > I show loving families and people working towards improving their own > lives. > > You have your own set of conclusions based on your agenda, not what I > have presented. The last thing I would do is reduce people to objects > of pity. You have no idea what you are talking about. Ted has more > intellectual capacity in his little finger than you could ever dream > of having. > > Tina > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information