Originally posted by pixelpig:
Originally posted by BigK:
Sorry if someone's posted this linky already - and if you haven't seen this yet, get ready to be blown away...
The Year 2008 in Photographs
*Edit to add* I dont know if i'm just in a weird mood or something, but looking at those images it makes some of these ribbons on DPC feel like a complete farce... (including my own)... |
I keep forgetting people like you exist. It only takes a moment to risk your life to get that perfect shot of sudden mortality. A photographer's entire life can be spent to only try to get that perfect shot of ordinary life lived with dignity & grace (it's only art). Looking thru the pics in your linky gives a very narrow, limited view of the artocities suffered & inflicted around the world. As if that's all that ever happened. It says nothing of the quiet courage of everyday, ordinary people living out their un-newsworthy lives, daring to be occasionally happy. |
You keep forgetting that people like me exist? Shoo. Please tell me what label you just hung around my neck? The finger pointing almost took my eye out.
Are you saying that i;m narrow minded and that you, perhaps have a greater understanding of the world of photography and what it means?
Human suffering is something real - it reminds us that our 'ordinary, un-newsworthy lives' should be something we should be grateful for every day. It reminds us how incredibly vulnerable we are, and how sometimes we should wake up and take a notice to what is happening around us. Have you considered that some of the victims in those images, ALSO lived an ordinary life with dignity and grace?
I think Yanko summed up the 'take a moment to snap one' vs 'spending a lifetime to create one shot' nicely, though ill just add that a lot of the time the photographers life is in danger too, which makes holding the camera steady, framing, checking settings just that much more fundamental.
It feels (and i say this with respect) like your argument has an underlying: 'Even Joe the Plumber who has a wife and four kids, works two shifts and has Athletes foot need to be honored because they're the 'real' heroes' theme...
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