On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 18:34:25 -0700, Andrew Dacey <adacey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> How about a less politically charged example of how we do this? For my
> colour photo class that I took in the summer I printed a number of
> photographs from my travels in Vietnam. My teacher liked my stuff but
> one criticism he had was that he knew that Vietnam was a very crowded
> country but that none of my shots conveyed that reality. My shots all
> portrayed very quiet scenes that seemed very serene and contemplative.
> This is a fairly accurate indication of the process I went through and
> part of the emotion I was feeling when taking the shots but that is
> not the reality of what you see 90% of the time in Vietnam. In terms
> of presenting what Vietnam is like I was only presenting a very small
> portion of it. By omitting the rest my "lie of omission" is to suggest
> that all of Vietnam is like that instead of just a small portion.
I understand perfectly; my photos taken in India two years ago, I made a
conscious choice not to portray the typical images of poverty. For example:
http://users2.ev1.net/~wesiddiquis/india/pages/trash.html
was taken after a person done looking for food through it. A very strong
image, but one I was not comfortable with.
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