I caught this television program that puts philanthropic-minded
celebrities face-to-face with extreme poverty and poor HDMI measures in
other countries. One that stood out was a hip-hop artist named Mos Def
who went to the "City of God" in Brazil and his reaction was along the
lines of how similar it still is in many impoverished urban and rural
areas in the US.
On 1/5/14 12:31 AM, Jan Faul 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.
Jan
On Jan 4, 2014, at 3:41 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
Why?
Tina
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto: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?
Randy S. Little
http://www.rslittle.com/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2325729/
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