Jan, since you were there years ago you must not discount the cultural aspect of us mountain brownies
People from the Andes love to have their picture taken, even if they never get a copy of it, specially in Peru where there is this incredibly strong reject of the "cholos" or people from the mountains
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, well I was in Peru for Ford trucks. You know, it was straight up commercialism. When the shoot was finished, they gave the trucks to local farmers rather than ship them back to Europe. I gave everybody who worked with us Polaroid prints for instant gratification. You could do that too.The only photographer whose work of brown people I appreciate is Phil Borges, and he has expanded into cultural areas. So you claim to be a poor man’s Phil Borges? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_BorgesJanOn Dec 19, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: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.TinaOn 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
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