Did you read my post, Jan? I spent half of my time working with the poor in the USA for over 30 years. I don't photograph in Honduras because it's easier. It's some of the hardest photography I've ever done but I love Honduras and Hondurans. The people always made me feel welcome and a part of the family. The families I stay with in Honduras have absolutely no material possessions, only each other and a very hard work ethic. How much time have you spent with poor families in the USA? I stayed with families that were recommended by the NGO's who were helping them. The elderly and handicapped were very deserving of every bit of help they got. Not so for most of the able-bodied families. No one is as poor as the average family in Honduras and no one works as hard to get out of poverty. I seriously considered moving to Honduras and may still. Would my photos be legitimate if I lived there full-time?
Tina
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Because too many wannabe American photographers travel to countries with brown-skinned people to shoot stories when there is a lot to work with here in the US. This has been a criticism of your work in the past, and yet here it is again. I have been under the impression that Roy Stryker’s FSA photographers during the great Depression from 1935-44 inspired photographers a generation later to go forth and shoot social realism and anti-poverty images. I think the FSA inspired street photographers like Lee Friedlander, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson, and others when they discovered that our supposedly ordinary lives were anything but. There is a lot to work with here and a lot could be done to show mainstream Americans that not all that much has changed between the 1930s and right now.Why do I think photographers like you do this? Because there are fewer rights to privacy in Honduras and anywhere south of the Rio Grande, than there are in Oklahoma or say Indiana. It is more exciting to go to a foreign country than it is to drive to a location a few states away and work with Americans to show that life here can be as brutal as life in Central America. Very few photographers have gone to great lengths to honor the people of a host country by shooting striking images which bring a host country’s troubles to our attention.I know you are a dedicated photographer and I also know you do not have to shoot brown-skinned kids to make your point. Poverty (no matter where ) will never be eradicated and most especially not here in the US where the streets are supposedly paved with gold.JanOn Jan 4, 2014, at 3:41 PM, Tina Manley wrote:Why?TinaOn Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This shot would have been much more powerful if the location was Arkansas or Oklahoma or other US state.On Jan 4, 2014, at 1:41 PM, Randy Little wrote:tina there is probably not much you could have done its a great shot. but that decapitated pig (having lived and worked in similar place) makes me think that pig is decapitated and dead. Also it looks like you have done some dodging on the faces maybe? The blacks look lifted a touch and seem odd. Is that a lens flare or retouched faces?On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Andrew Davidhazy <andpph@xxxxxxx> wrote:Happy New Year!
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