You have made your inherent dislike of me and my work very clear, Jan. I was in Peru with Heifer Project International, photographing Quechuan farmers as they received llamas from HPI for a self-development program. Look at his eyes, does he look like he is upset that I'm photographing him? I have photographed people of various shades of brown and black in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, and Kenya as they received llamas, cows, pigs, goats, chickens, sheep, and bees. Usually I stay with a local family for a week and document how their lives have changed because of the animals and HPI programs. I have stayed with some of the same families several times over the last 30 years. I consider them friends. They love the prints I take back to them. Should I tell them, "Sorry, I can't photograph you because you have brown skin."?? Your hostility is the reason I seldom post photos on Photoforum. You must be a very unhappy person.
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tina Manley - The ShepardI have an inherent dislike of photographers who insist on going to loctions with brown-skinned citizens to make photos of subjects the rest of us see as ‘3rd-world’ or impoverished. I’ll bet there is a whale of a lot of other things to shoot in Peru which have nothing to do with brown-skinned people. At least there was when I was there.Jan
