Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The problem with that, I think, is that it's temporary - the crisis is gone, all that packs up and goes home. This puts a skill in place and leaves it to grow. Even before the earthquake Haiti needed help but most people weren't paying any attention because they weren't seeing the Compelling Images that made them care. Enfranchise photographers within the country and help them tell their own story, now and tomorrow, rather than waiting for European journalists to come and tell it when catastrophe strikes. That's my reasoning anyway... Peter Dwzig sed: >extremely good idea, but... >I can't help thinking that the best thing that the LUG could do would be for >one of us to get out there and take the compelling images (KC?). It's like >a war >zone. It needs those skills. [snip] Kyle Cassidy wrote: > I've been thinking - one of the reasons that some tragedies are noticed > and others slip past is compelling images. Kevin Carter's photo of the > Vulture stands out in my mind. I've been moved and distressed and > emotionally pilloried by some of the photos coming from Haiti and was > thinking that an appropriate way for this group to help out might be by > finding a photography school somewhere in the country, donating some > collected funds or equipment and helping the people who will be > documenting the rebuilding of that place in the years to come. > > Something like Jeff Mills' Young Haitian Documentary Photographers Group: > > http://www.rocksandtrees.ca/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=109 > > What say you? > > Kyle > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > --