Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/25
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This is such bullshit. Shooting a photo of a bunch of kids crying at the
site where their friends died is not going to change anyone's minds. I
have always thought reasoning like this is one of the most inane people
use to justify shooting in these situations anyway. People are going to
do what they do.....hell I have seen bodies crushed and burned beyond any
semblance to a human figure and I
still speed.
Anyway as I said in the post I already had the photos I needed so I left.
I guess they were not that
bad as one ran front page of the paper and won a 3 rd pace in the region
six NPPA (national Press
Photographers Association) monthly clip contest.
Anthony, unless you have been there in situations like this you have no
ground to talk as you do.
Anyone who has worked news, esp in a big city like Atlanta, GA, has seen
things that stay in your
mind for life and you learn when it is best to just cut and run.
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
>So you pleased the high-school kids there, but you may have missed
the photos
> that could have persuaded some other high school kids to drive more
>carefully.
> You avoid making someone uncomfortable, but someone else might have
>died later
> who would not have died had he seen particularly persuasive photographs
>taken by
> you.
>
> You should have continued shooting. Sometimes a bit of temporary
>discomfort for
> one or two people is preferable for the greater good. If every
>photojournalist
> stops shooting whenever he made a subject uncomfortable... well, look at a
> collection of such photos yourself and see just how many that would
>eliminate.
-- Anthony
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