Comments on: Scott Typaldos – Butterflies https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/01/scott-typaldos-butterflies/ burn is an online feature for emerging photographers worldwide. burn is curated by magnum photographer david alan harvey. Sat, 18 Jun 2016 11:32:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.4 By: Week 5 – additional research – Interrogating Identity https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/01/scott-typaldos-butterflies/#comment-1115922 Thu, 10 Mar 2016 19:02:50 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20214#comment-1115922 […] [i] http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/01/scott-typaldos-butterflies/; […]

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By: Week Six: Post Documentary Photography | Jack Pearson Photojournalist https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/01/scott-typaldos-butterflies/#comment-304833 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:15:20 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20214#comment-304833 […] http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/01/scott-typaldos-butterflies/ […]

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By: Chairman https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/01/scott-typaldos-butterflies/#comment-270473 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 02:29:18 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20214#comment-270473 I’m not a frequent commentator, and I often feel contrarian–perhaps because I did not go to art school. But this essay, while certainly containing many powerful portraits, seems to me to be a triumph of style over substance. Dragging the shutter doesn’t make a photo more important, deliberately adding camera shake to architectural photos does not increase my understanding of the subject.

I understand that there is the possibility that I am a hick who just rode into town on a truckload of pumpkins, but hicks get to look at photos, too,

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By: Imants https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/01/scott-typaldos-butterflies/#comment-269300 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 08:18:11 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20214#comment-269300 put those rose coloured glasses on

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By: Imants https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/01/scott-typaldos-butterflies/#comment-269274 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:31:45 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20214#comment-269274 Better to look away…. then go ahead and do what you do best

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By: Gordon Lafleur https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/01/scott-typaldos-butterflies/#comment-268980 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:44:57 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20214#comment-268980 I should know better than to jump in here.
A “parade of unfortunates”, absolutely. Better to look away.

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By: Carlo https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/01/scott-typaldos-butterflies/#comment-268808 Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:34:50 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20214#comment-268808 Marcus Bleasdale:

“To get through to people you have to show individuals touched by the conflict. That’s how you engage people, how you shock them to maybe change their behavior. I want to repeat, though: It’s difficult for photographs to do this work on their own. You need an advocacy group to partner with who can knock on the doors of Congress and corporations. This advocacy work is as satisfying to me as taking a photograph.”

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140109-conflict-minerals-intel-marcus-bleasdale-congo/

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By: Frostfrog https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/01/scott-typaldos-butterflies/#comment-267341 Sun, 12 Jan 2014 05:37:20 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20214#comment-267341 I just took another look at it and I will say that, indeed, in so many ways, it is “a parade of the unfortunate.” This does not mean we should turn our eyes away from this creation of society, but perhaps as he furthers this work, Scott might seek and show some answers as to what can be done to address this problem and find a way to make some photos to create more empathy for his subjects and make it clear that these “unfortunates” are part of us.

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By: Frostfrog https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/01/scott-typaldos-butterflies/#comment-267277 Sun, 12 Jan 2014 04:38:57 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20214#comment-267277 Imants, your comment brought such a big smile to my face I was sure wishing there was a “like” button attached to it so I could “push” it.

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By: Imants https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/01/scott-typaldos-butterflies/#comment-267122 Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:35:41 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20214#comment-267122 Frostfrog Sure beats being a “like” button pusher.

With most essays I don’t make comment on but when one appears and despite being a great subject and all we get is a bunch of pictures it really does a disservice to the people involved. It is a parade of the unfortunate

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By: Frostfrog https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/01/scott-typaldos-butterflies/#comment-267115 Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:12:53 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20214#comment-267115 Poor Scott Typaldos – goes out, works hard, gets exceptional access, takes stunning photos that do indeed tell hard but true stories about real people and how they are being treated and then on Burn, where comments have become sparse these days, the first and for a time the only voices to speak up are those of Burn’s two resident naysayers.

As Gordon says, this is brutal to view and very disturbing. Will it change the world and ease the plight of the folks so affected? Probably not. But it might add weight to previous documentation already out there and push the issue closer to the tipping point where action might begin to be taken. This is one contention Jim has often made that I do understand – someone or someones has already photographed and documented something, so there is no point in anyone doing further work on the subject. Typaldos’ essay has certainly brought a situation I seldom think of into a sharp kind of focus in my mind that it did not have before.

It would seem someone is exploiting the mentally ill shown here. Who is it? The photographer who sheds light upon what is happening to them? Or someone or some force within the system that places them here?

If there is distance between the photographer who is right there with them and his subjects, perhaps it is the distance that their circumstance and placement in life puts between them and everybody.

I was a little extra disturbed by photo 8 and could not help but wonder if the person behind the woman was force-posing her for the photograph. I hope not. This would be terribly wrong and unconscionable and might make me think there is some truth in Jim’s observations.

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By: Gordon Lafleur https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/01/scott-typaldos-butterflies/#comment-267026 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 21:26:09 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20214#comment-267026 This is brutal to view, and very disturbing. Congratulations for being a finalist. Well deserved.

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By: BUTTERFLIES by SCOTT TYPALDOS on BURN MAGAZINE | prospekt | photographers https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/01/scott-typaldos-butterflies/#comment-266759 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 14:09:53 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20214#comment-266759 […] An extracts of Butterflies Chapter 1 and Butterflies Chapter 2 by Scott Typaldos about mental affliction in Ghana, Togo and Kosovo has been featured on the site of BURN MAGAZINE. […]

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By: Imants https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/01/scott-typaldos-butterflies/#comment-266135 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 23:29:01 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20214#comment-266135 Sometime being a person who takes pictures is not enough especially when you are so far removed from your subject.

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By: Jim Powers https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/01/scott-typaldos-butterflies/#comment-265974 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 20:44:39 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20214#comment-265974 Beyond the high-minded words of the artist statement, this seems more exploitation than illumination. Does the photographer really think he is going to resolve any of this with photos? This horror story has been unfolding for years, been documented many times, yet is more prevalent than ever, it seems. He seems drawn to toward the darkness.

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