1⃣️What is photography?
I have liked taking pictures since I had a mobile phone. For me, it is a kind of life record. I take pictures of the things and people around me when I was a child. Later, when I got older, I like to take pictures of interesting people, strange people, ordinary people.
Every time I shoot, I feel a sense of offense and even feel that I should tell the other party if I can shoot and then shoot, but sometimes what I capture is the moment of confusion. After you ask, she will be gone in that moment.
For me, I have always been apologetic in my heart for photographing others, so I often force myself not to take more pictures of landscapes, but for me people are more interesting than landscapes When people can’t help taking pictures, I’m afraid of disturbing the other party. I’m afraid that my camera will make her embarrassed. I’m most afraid that the other party will see me and her eyes will collide with my camera. The guilty feeling has been tormenting me.
2⃣️How should your state and behavior be defined during photography?
War photographers are better than ordinary photographers. They are very different, but the essence is the same. They are all conveying information. It is just that war photographers show a sharper and more human side, exposing many problems that ordinary photography cannot see. The ordinary world does not feel it. to the room
Photography as a profession, their behavior is simply due diligence. Everything is for the sake of obtaining good works. At that moment, he is a camera that records every situation in the world. In fact, what qualifications do you have to accuse a person who is serious and responsible for his profession Woolen cloth? If the photographer was simply regarded as a camera and a machine, everyone would probably not have any accusations against Kay's photos, but it is precisely because it is not a camera that can't take pictures by itself, and can't choose what to take. It is people's emotions and experiences that give it life and meaning. To choose what to shoot and how to shoot, in this sense, others cannot understand that a person can coldly press the camera in the face of these hardships
In fact, it is ironic that these two photos won the award because they were desperate and shocking enough.
Although the two won the award, they both faced the same impact, the impact on the heart and human nature that the outside world could not understand.
Burning Man wasn't talked about on a massive scale because the message of that photo didn't have an intuitive face-to-face choice, it felt like the photographer was just a bystander, he just recorded it (the movie was interesting in that it allowed him to see the whole thing happen and poured matches but He didn't do anything and the police came to look for evidence and it was interesting to say that he photographed the criminal. If you witnessed everything at the scene, what would you choose? To save that person?) And the message of the little girl's photo has choices. Kai was waiting beside him for a while. He had a choice to help but didn't say "You just wanted to take pictures at the time??? Did nothing???", so it caused a lot of controversy
The photos of two people express suffering. One conveys the chaotic tragedy of war and the other conveys the tragedy of hunger. One is "powerless" and the other is "available for help". The awards are the same, it's just human choice and tolerance. They all maintain a photographer's attitude. They just record and don't change. They're just bystanders, not the priests who pity the suffering. They're not doctors who save lives. They're nothing. a camera
Photography as a recorder, feedback, and communicator, should he be dutiful and simply record the person who was burned? What can he do? What can he do to the girl who is being coveted by vultures? Does saving one save all? The only thing you can do is use your professional voice to communicate their suffering, but I can't help thinking that at least one can be saved. I have no answer. I even wonder if photography itself is difficult to define, so this blurring leads to the photography debate
I've never figured out how to define photography myself. Most situations don't have these dilemmas, so I've been ignoring it, but I don't want to criticize him for no reason, as if Joe took a picture of Ken in a hurry when he was shot. Take a picture and then lift Ken into the car. You said he still wanted to take pictures at this time? ? ? Is it too cold-blooded? ? ? It seems to me that he was angry at Ken's injury and at the same time did not forget who he was and who he was and what to leave behind for Ken to convey what he subconsciously took that photo
In the film, she didn't want to raise the light to get close to the child, but he took her hand unmoved, "Come closer" and pushed her forward. Do you think he has no feelings? ? Did you say he was cold-blooded? ? ? If every war photographer is like her, I don't think there is a photo that can be conveyed to the outside world because it's so pitiful, so sad, I feel pity
From the moment he took the picture of Burning Man's mental state to the follow-up filming of the child, his process was very obvious, from the emotional start to the madness and calmness in the follow-up. She said that he is more and more like Kai. On another level, I think he is instead From an ordinary person to a war photographer
Kay twitched as he patted the man lying on the ground. He looked panicked
Kay said his mind was all about the deaths
I felt so sad at that moment?
I can't say if I was a member of the discussion or the silent member at that time because I still don't understand photography
Photography itself is hard to find the answer
But that doesn't stop me from paying tribute to war correspondents
I'll never be able to be the woman who doesn't dare to hold the lamp near and cry for them and break their hearts but I'll never be the one who bravely speaks for them
You say they don't have humanity, they face the deepest humanity, they mess themselves up into this misery, record all the ways in the world, their humanity has long been left in their pictures
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