Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Excellent, extremely thorough look at a sliver of a culture many of us are unfamiliar with. Thank you very much for sharing, and teaching us. Your style brings up a question that I have been debating myself about. In your photo story you have many images. Is it more effective to have an large archive of information or wittle it down to where the audience will study individual images more? I think in your documentary of a rather unfamiliar event the mass of photos gives a better idea of the atmosphere and exactly what goes on. Sebastio Salgado also uses a mass of images instead of a few extremly strong ones. I wouldn't agree with how he uses a lot of images though because he is trying to get a point across and just a few of his strongest images would probably have more of an effect. What do other poeple think, its getting late and my head hurts so I can't embelish further right now, ill bring this up later probably. David Degner On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 23:00, Red Dawn wrote: > Hi > > Here's my photo essay of Korban, taken during Hari Raya Haji about a month > ago as part of my project to document Islam in my country (Singapore). As a > local chinese it felt funny at first, but i was welcomed like one of them > and that made photo taking very easy....... the local malays are very > friendly pple. > On Hari Raya Haji muslims offer up the sacrifice of sheep to Allah their God > as thanksgiving for the gift of children and newborns to their family. > Korban is the name of this animal sacrifice, and is normally 2 sheep / goat > for a boy, and 1 sheep / goat for a girl, though this is not mandatory. The > process also has parallel in the Old Testament where Abraham offered up his > only son Isaac as a sacrifice to God on God's request. When God saw that he > passed the test and did not withhold his own son from Him, a ram was > sacrificed in place of Isaac. > > Here's the link - > > http://reddawn.clubsnap.org/photos/korban2003/ > > All shot with Tri-X and a m6TTL with 35mm cron asph and a m3 with a 50 > cron.......... > > Feedback or comments are welcome... > > enjoy! > > Boon Hwee > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html