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By: Imants

Imants — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:47:45 +0000

David skype is a bit iffy here in Tasmania plus I was on the road for three days, I will try to get on when you are on…….a bit hit and miss. Teenager works are in the bag easy to obtain I have a series sitting at home from one young lady ready to go. Just need a venue.

By: david alan harvey

david alan harvey — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:30:33 +0000

FROSTFROG

i cannot figure out what happened to your lost comment….sorry

GORDON

i think we are going to make an essay out of the loft class work…i have too much going on right now to be totally efficient, but if you are patient just a bit more, then i think you will see Bill’s fine work right here….

IMANTS

still cannot get you on skype..no matter…i have you worked into my workshop one way or another…HeadOn folks very much interested in education for the young….something we all share…looking forward…

cheers, david

By: Gordon Lafleur

Gordon Lafleur — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:37:45 +0000

Frostfrog
More than once I have spent a long time thoughtfully typing a comment, and forgotten to hit “submit”, or clicked a link, etc. Hope you had a great nap.
Still hoping to read your report on New York, and see a few photos from your time there.

By: david alan harvey

david alan harvey — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:33:22 +0000

FROSTFROG

you saw the comment published? we surely would never delete anything…let me see what i can find out…..

By: Gracie

Gracie — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:08:31 +0000

Panos!!!

Sadly it is us whose lives are simple who make things complicated.

Those in the world who live just to survive look at things simply. Things are already complicated.

WE SHOULD NAP. Like Frostfrog did… WE all SHOULD NAP. Take a rest and breather from ourselves.

So for me… I shall drink… drink to the happiness that is always there for us to find. It is always there. Cheers!

By: michael kircher

michael kircher — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:38:22 +0000

Bill… sounds wonderful. Enjoy, my friend.

By: Frostfrog

Frostfrog — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:42:43 +0000

Wow – very strange. The last comment I left here has disappeared.

And it was an absolutely brilliant comment too – the most brilliant that I or any other commenter has ever left on Burn.

But that flash of brilliance can never be recreated.

It is gone. Forever.

I think I will go take a nap by the fireplace, the snow coming down outside.

Cats will join me. We will have a good time napping. We will forget about all the horrible things taking place in the world as we enjoy the peace and quiet of a dim, winter afternoon in South Central Alaska.

For the duration of that nap, it will seem as if the whole world is in peace.

Wonderful peace.

By: Herve

Herve — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:56:43 +0000

Jim talking about himself, while talking about ze world (Thanks for sharing it with us)…

By: Imants

Imants — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:55:23 +0000

and maybe it is is all about photographic enhancement of sadness………….. most photographers are like wombats “eats shoots and leaves”

By: panos skoulidas

panos skoulidas — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:50:01 +0000

Gracie!!!
Radical way of thinking.. I like your thoughts:)

By: Gracie

Gracie — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:30:55 +0000

(back on BURN – away for the longest time)

has anyone ever considered this……..

the eyes which roll belong to the child sex worker each time she sees a photographer

……..

what if they dont want to be helped?
what if they just want their pictures taken…
that for a single moment, a photographer there provides them a chance to look and BE beautiful..
for once someone is interested only in looking at them?

By: Pete Marovich

Pete Marovich — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:57:55 +0000

Correct.

By: Andy Gray

Andy Gray — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:34:37 +0000

All this talk about the big picture, solving the unsolvable problem, doesn’t that sound like ego? If someone is willing to start in a small way, with one step, he or she will find a way forward.

By: mw

mw — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:56:17 +0000

If by “people involved” you mean the country’s government, police, and judicial system as well as the victims and the perps. And from wealthier countries’ perspectives, there’s probably some financial aid to those entities involved.

By: Pete Marovich

Pete Marovich — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:32:22 +0000

EVA

The only people that can truly do anything about it are the people involved. What are you suggesting, military action?

All anyone else can do is educate and assist.

JIM

“And as we passionately debate, the beat goes on.”

Then maybe you should sign off BURN and go help do something about it. I am sure they would welcome your help.

By: eva

eva — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:28:53 +0000

Pete..

You might be right on the thinking, but I fear not on the behaving.. looking the other way is behaving also..

Jim..

If for you the beat goes on, ’cause you don’t do anything, it doesn’t mean all the others do the same..

By: Jim Powers

Jim Powers — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:14:58 +0000

And as we passionately debate, the beat goes on.

By: Andy Gray

Andy Gray — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:09:05 +0000

Jim – Throwing out those big numbers to make a point obscures your logical gaps. The world is too complex simply to conclude that photographers don’t make a difference. Using your own logic, why not conclude that all the NGO’s are useless? So why sell my camera equipment and give it to them? Really, the best way to make a difference and find hope is to become small, local, personal. But I think we can have a foot in both the macro and the micro.

I agree with part of what I hear you saying. The world is full of people who prefer delusions and stoking their own egos. I am filled with anger when I see photographers flocking to scenes of injustice because there will be a market for the images but not making any relationships with the people. Where are the photographers the next day? Though some are still around. Akesh seems like one such person.

If I had to choose between taking pictures and actually working with real people to do something, then I would sell my camera gladly. But it’s not that simple. I have to figure out how to live in a world where I don’t know what to do, but I have to do something. In such a complex world, it’s so easy to give up and look for easier choices.

I’m nothing in the wide world of photography, with few ego strokes and little money to prove myself, but I know my photographs have brought thousands of dollars and attention (the kind that leads to action) to specific people and NGO’s and kids. It’s been useful and will be useful within its limits. Not that I have to justify calling myself a photographer this way. I simply love taking pictures, just like others love to paint or write or run. That alone is a pretty good reason to be a photographer, but it would never be a good enough reason for me to check out on real people — like I’m doing right now as my wife cleans up after dinner as I sit typing.