Exploitation: . the use or manipulation of another person for one's own advantage. Tell me how the use of ANY model is not exploitation. Personally I think that photographing people of a different culture, showing their lives and their environment, is MUCH less of an exploitive enterprise than using a model who doesn’t understand her or his true worth to sell a product. Every photographer exploits another person every time they photograph that person. One can quibble—as I will do in a second—about degrees of exploitation, but if a photographer profits from taking pictures of others, it is exploitation. As for myself, I find it much less offensive to see photos of different cultures to which I have not been exposed than to see exploitive photographs used only to profit the photographer and a sponsor. I learn from the former, I get nothing useful from the latter. YMMV. Peace rand -------------------------------------------------------------- On Dec 20, 2014, at 9:28 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
So now you’re a shrink too? I’m not hostile Tina, I am speaking my mind on the topic of exploitation. Like it or not, you are exploiting these people even though you bend over backwards to make it not appear to be so. Art Faul The Artist Formerly Known as Prints ------ Art for Cars: art4carz.com Stills That Move: http://www.artfaul.com Greens: http://www.inkjetprince.com Camera Works - The Washington Post . |
