Sunday, April 8, 2007

Past due blog, monday, april 2nd

the picture of the kid sitting on the ground and the photographers all around him....my thoughts since i didnt get to talk. We were discussing ethics of this situation. i think that its ok for this scene to be staged because i think its something that could happen if someone didnt intervine and hlep their situation.
if the situation was actually real then that would be a different story. it would depend on the ethics of the photographer. really it is not his/her job to provide these people with help or food. not as a photogapher anyways. as a human, thats a different issue. when we see people in help or need we should help them. the only bad part of this situation is that the person is not should we say qualified or trained to help possibly then they could be worsening the situation. i saw a movie, i cant think of the name, but it was one of the recent war movies where there was a photojournalist with the troops and he was there when they got attacked and the soliders gave him a weapon. that photographer should be trained in some kind if they choose to go to the battle. he was just there to take pictures not fight the enemy. so those are my thoughts. stay tuned for more!

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