Gary A.
Been spending a lot of time on here!
- Joined
- Sep 17, 2014
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- Southern California
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I shoot Street. If you shoot Street, do so with respect. I think you recognized this aspect as you also want to tell THEIR story. The problem with shooting the homeless is to do so, without being exploitive. I have removed all homeless images from my photosite because I wasn't showing their side of the story. (As a former photojournalist, I recognized the one-sidedness of my images. My photos did not address the homeless side ... my photos did not tell the homeless side of the story ... so I removed them.)
Immersing yourself into the story, showing and telling the homeless side of the story is great. Go for it, do it right. I recognized that what you are doing, by engaging the homeless, is what I needed to do ... but unwilling to do so (for a variety of reasons).
Immersing yourself into the story, showing and telling the homeless side of the story is great. Go for it, do it right. I recognized that what you are doing, by engaging the homeless, is what I needed to do ... but unwilling to do so (for a variety of reasons).
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