Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D. I see where you are coming from, but as a freelancer in Washington, DC I was often hired for PR shots by people whose causes I didn't agree with. For example, I was hired to photograph a noisy demonstration for steel industry protection, while I am a firm believer in free trade. I never discussed politics with them, it was all business. Of course, what they asked me to do was not illegal. In my view a freelancer willing to break the law with a client cannot shield himself by crying "professional." As for PR photography = PJ. I never considered myself as such. When you do PR you are trying to please the client. A lot of demonstrations are quite small, but you don't want to show that and make the client look pathetic. A real PJ would (in theory) be neutral, and he might therefore legitmately claim protections that a hired photographer cannot. Simon Stevens >Tim - Interesting cultural split. I don't know that it's a matter of >ethical high horse. I think it has more to do, in the U.S., with noting >that if someone is paid by demonstrators to promote their cause he/she >is, in effect, a demonstrator - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html