Photographer under attack for photographing pothole victim

Tooloose_Letrek · Dec 27, 2005

Alexandra said:
that's what i do... just befor running away.

Yeah, that's what I do, except for the running away part. I'm sneaky. I've almost been assaulted three times on the streets of Detroit. I used to post my pics on a public gallery and there was always someone in the audience who thought I was a scoundrel.

You guys are hardcore/brutal! LOL.

Alexandra · Dec 27, 2005

You guys are hardcore/brutal! LOL.

you haven't seed our monthly sado-maso evenings yet... :whip:

but now seriously. I always thought there was something vicious or voyeuristic about snaping people just like that, but I'm over it, now i see people just don't give a damn or don't even notice cause i run quick, hehe.
Apparently that's not the case in Detroit. But It's big city, compared to Mtl... or maybe you were just too abvious

darin3200 · Dec 27, 2005

There was a magnum photographer who did a whole series that he took with a hidden camera of people he was sitting across from in the subway.

darin3200 · Dec 27, 2005

Alexandra said:
you haven't seed our monthly sado-maso evenings yet...

We have a sado-maso evening?! Why doesn't anyone tell me about this stuff?

Alexandra · Dec 27, 2005

now that's an idea, eh!? Do you know a site with those pics or something, cause that'd be cool to see!
Actually i once saw this kind of reflector lens that allows you to take pics of something or someone while pointing your camera in another direction. awesome thing it was.

Alexandra · Dec 27, 2005

darin3200 said:
We have a sado-maso evening?! Why doesn't anyone tell me about this stuff?

Well, you know, all those meet-up things... well... that's not quite true

danalec99 · Dec 27, 2005

darin3200 said:
We have a sado-maso evening?! Why doesn't anyone tell me about this stuff?

doh!!

darin3200 · Dec 27, 2005

Alexandra said:
now that's an idea, eh!? Do you know a site with those pics or something, cause that'd be cool to see!
Actually i once saw this kind of reflector lens that allows you to take pics of something or someone while pointing your camera in another direction. awesome thing it was.

Check out this page
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Alexandra · Dec 27, 2005

thx for the link!
These are Awesome! I just checked and the book's available at a bookstore, downtown. Next time I'll be there, i'll make sure to take a closer look at it.

craig · Dec 28, 2005

The photographer is liable for nothing. He was just shooting a story.

Personally I could never watch someone get hurt even in the least. Let alone photograph it. I definitely would have alerted him. Any photog could shoot the story without incident. There is a huge difference between the hidden camera on the subway and photographing someone getting hurt. As photographers we can say that "I am just shooting it". As humans we should consider how fragile life is.

Tooloose_Letrek · Dec 28, 2005

Since that pothole was hardly obvious (under water) but large, it's not that much of a stretch that someone could get seriously hurt, say flip over and crash head first and suffer a severe head injury, or, if riding that bike fast enough, hit the hole and veer to the left and into the path of oncoming traffic.

What if...that cyclist was your mate or lover and you weren't the photographer?

zedin · Dec 28, 2005

This is sorta the debate I have always had with myself over photographing a situation or helping. It is hard for me to take a picture when I know that I might be able to help in a situation but then again by taking the photos you can inform people of situations they might not be aware of.

celery · Dec 28, 2005

As if the photog was the only person who knew that the pothole existed. Many people must have passed it by over and over and no one said a thing about it's danger before.

Just because the photog was waiting to take the picture doesn't mean he should've warned the guy.

If I were that photog, I would have taken the pic and then laughed at the guy too. Then I would have helped him up and asked if he was alright.

Those pictures are funny. If you take life too seriously, it'll kill you.

Alexandra · Dec 28, 2005

I Agree with celery. Damn, that legume is smart!
...just joking, sweet.:hug::

JohnMF · Dec 28, 2005

i think the photog used that "nothing would be done about the hole if i didnt take the photograph" as just an excuse to get a funny picture of someone falling off a bike! He couldn't have been that concern about someone falling down it and hurting themselves because he just sat there and waited for somebody to do exactly that.

Might have just been a better idea to take a picture of the pothole itself (although not as exciting)

Imagine you were that Photographer and you were laying in wait for somebody to come along and fall down the hole, then you look up and see your own mother, completely oblivious, cylcing towards it. Do you warn her? or do you wait for her to fall face first into the gutter in a rather undignified fashion?

Aww, poor mum

!!