LA woman stabbed, killed taking pictures of homeless

[hepcat]

I'll grant you, Joe, that it's an uncomfortable thread about a very uncomfortable topic, but the discussion has been civil and largely centered around the ethics of and pitfalls encountered in street photography. I can understand how it could easily stray into trying to point fingers at causation, but I don't think the majority of the posters to this thread are too concerned about those side conversations.

 

[giellaleafapmu]

My comment was based purely on the interaction going on in the photo between the two subjects. It's positive and has a warmth to it.

But go ahead ... dissect my words to suit your own needs! 🙂

Thank you! 🙂 Seriously, I agree that possibly it is also kind of charming but this
was not the first thing it come to mind to me, I am sorry, maybe as somebody else
wrote I do live in a society which is a bit too divided and possibly you touched a nerve...

GLF

 

[giellaleafapmu]

Well, I was there and that's twaddle, it was nothing like that ... I'm sorry you have to live in such a divided society or that you feel so threatened by it that you think in this way

Ok, possibly it was as you say (no, not possibly, if you were there and you say so it was for sure) but for an external viewer like me, coming from a country in South America with far wider gap between the (very few) wealthy and the (many more) poor it is not difficult to see a little different story in these pictures. Ah, no, I don't feel threatened by anyone, certainly not by bazuco addicts living in the streets or by people without a job or a house, but I try my best to foresee the possible problems which might come when dealing with them. Ignoring real dangers would be just foolish.

GLF

 

[kbg32]

She did what many photographers have done for years ...photograph "others" while not getting involved. I couldn't do it. I'm sure you remember this:

No photograph is worth watching someone losing his life when you could have saved it.

Shameful.

 

[frank-grumman]

For what it matters, there is a fellow on Fred Miranda, www.deinfaces.com, named Bob Dein who does what I think to be some very nice work photographing people on the street from all walks of life.

 

[giellaleafapmu]

No photograph is worth watching someone losing his life when you could have saved it.

Shameful.

I had to read the whole story and it is even more disturbing than the picture. People doing nothing, a photographer "firing the flash to attract the driver attention", then the picture "licensed" and used in the first page. There is that old joke saying: "If you have to chose between saving a man and taking his picture of death which lens do you use?", but I really believed it was a bad taste joke, not something to see it in real life and here it seems like they went many steps beyond this.

GLF

 

[tunalegs]

I had to read the whole story and it is even more disturbing than the picture. People doing nothing, a photographer "firing the flash to attract the driver attention", then the picture "licensed" and used in the first page. There is that old joke saying: "If you have to chose between saving a man and taking his picture of death which lens do you use?", but I really believed it was a bad taste joke, not something to see it in real life and here it seems like they went many steps beyond this.

GLF

If it makes any difference, that photo and others taken by people on the platform will probably convict his killer. I haven't heard anything about the case though since january when the guy was pleading for the charge to be lowered to manslaughter.

 

[Michael Markey]

Ok, possibly it was as you say (no, not possibly, if you were there and you say so it was for sure) but for an external viewer like me, coming from a country in South America with far wider gap between the (very few) wealthy and the (many more) poor it is not difficult to see a little different story in these pictures. Ah, no, I don't feel threatened by anyone, certainly not by bazuco addicts living in the streets or by people without a job or a house, but I try my best to foresee the possible problems which might come when dealing with them. Ignoring real dangers would be just foolish.

GLF

It is as he said ...I was there too.

Despite the hyperbole of earlier posts the situation in the UK is not , in general, as edgy as it appears to be in other parts of the world.

I live not far from a coastal town with the highest welfare dependency in the country. People flock there for the sea air ,money from tourists and the abundant cheap rental accommodation.

Big drug and alcohol dependency culture all mixed in with the tourist trade.

I don`t take photographs of the addicts and down and outs but am often verbally accosted by them. As soon as I raise a camera to my eye one will pop up from somewhere shouting .
I smile and tell them to "go away" , they laugh and do so.

No drama ,no problem.
There but for fortune indeed ....

 

[Roger Hicks]

I'll grant you, Joe, that it's an uncomfortable thread about a very uncomfortable topic, but the discussion has been civil and largely centered around the ethics of and pitfalls encountered in street photography. I can understand how it could easily stray into trying to point fingers at causation, but I don't think the majority of the posters to this thread are too concerned about those side conversations.

Seconded.

Cheers,

R.

 

[Roger Hicks]

See also http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2...o_the_homeless_population.html?wpisrc=flyouts

Cheers,

R.

 

[hepcat]

See also http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2...o_the_homeless_population.html?wpisrc=flyouts

Cheers,

R.

An excellent, well done project. Thanks for sharing that, Roger