(in spite of the fact that I do a lot of work for local charities: http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/dimes_for_hunger&page=4)
so I contacted one of the agencies I work with - HOPE (Helping Other People Effectively) - and they found an "ideal" family for me to stay with in West Virginia. I spent a week in a trailer with an obese couple and their seven year old son. The couple spent the entire week sitting on the couch ordering things off of Shopping Network on their wide-screen TV, eating potato chips, drinking Coke and smoking nonstop. The son spent the entire week sitting in front of his TV playing Nintendo. I nearly died of asphyxiation from the cigarette smoke. It took me several trips to Central America to get over the depression caused by that one project. I can't even stand to look at the photos today. I'm sure they picked the wrong "ideal" family but all of the families I've stayed with in Central America were the hardest working people I've ever seen and were totally focused on caring for each other and the community.
Tina
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Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sebastido’s skin is thicker than mine because of what he shoots. His is almost off the chart. In my youth, when I was assigned to shoot landscapes with people in them, my skin was thicker from being sent places I didn’t know even existed in the USA and shockingly, they were all pretty close to Washington DC.In 2005, I drove through the area again to see if it was as barren as I recalled, and sadly, nothing much had changed. You want to shoot poor people Tina? Go to Appalachia and if you need a photographer to point you in the right direction, go to Whitesburg and talk to the folks at Appalshop. It was started in the 1970’s.http://appalshop.org/about/You’ll need a think skin and it doesn’t matter what color it is. You will probably look pretty much like everybody else, as most Appalachians are white.JanOn Mar 23, 2013, at 11:20 PM, Alberto Tirado wrote:
I am astounded that nobody mentioned Sebastião Salgado.
Anyway:... you have skin as thick as mine,
ROTFL !!!
I swear my first impulse was to print and frame this.
Carry on.
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Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com
