In war or disaster, photos are routinely taken of people who have been gravely injured, and often, the photographer is embedded with the troops responsible for the carnage. Now, that's complicity.
All I'm doing is recording what's already right out in the open.
P.S. the embedded war photographer can even justify his work by saying he's showing the true face of war, or even indicting the soldiers he's traveling with, although they are the very ones who are protecting him.
got to love eahilf concern-trolling you about this photo same person who responded to your photo of Koreans wearing masks: ".....to inconvenience yourself, or affect your own health via retained CO2, in order to protect 'others' when you know you are not ill." Yeah, all those poor medical students who've worn them for years and still managed despite that 'retained CO2'. eahilf ends the lengthy comment with: "But the mass obeisance to authority is very disturbing"
As for eahilf's take on the homeless, here's her comment to this photo, "Most of the "homeless" are alcoholics and drug addicts who are unable to control their addictions -- these addictions largely destroy their formerly normal lives, e.g. they can no longer hold a job or their relatives throw them out."
Before coming to South Korea, I had no idea what the homeless situation here was like, and a tourist on a, say, five-day vacation would most likely not see any homeless people, or would he see all the old people collecting cardboard to resell. My entire photography project is to show what not's normally presented.
Anyway, you travel to see firsthand what a country is like, but you must walk for miles through regular neighborhoods, and hang out with ordinary people.
Here in Busan, the shabbier neighborhoods are up the hills, away from the ocean and subway stations, so if you're here, you should hike up those hills...
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Do you ever have moral/ethical qualms about taking such fotos?
No, it's a record of society.
In war or disaster, photos are routinely taken of people who have been gravely injured, and often, the photographer is embedded with the troops responsible for the carnage. Now, that's complicity.
All I'm doing is recording what's already right out in the open.
P.S. the embedded war photographer can even justify his work by saying he's showing the true face of war, or even indicting the soldiers he's traveling with, although they are the very ones who are protecting him.
got to love eahilf concern-trolling you about this photo same person who responded to your photo of Koreans wearing masks: ".....to inconvenience yourself, or affect your own health via retained CO2, in order to protect 'others' when you know you are not ill."
Yeah, all those poor medical students who've worn them for years and still managed despite that 'retained CO2'.
eahilf ends the lengthy comment with: "But the mass obeisance to authority is very disturbing"
Give me some FREEDUMB!
Hi destroytheuniverse,
Both left and right pick symbolic targets to assert their freedumb, while real freedoms are stolen from all of them.
Linh
As for eahilf's take on the homeless, here's her comment to this photo, "Most of the "homeless" are alcoholics and drug addicts who are unable to control their addictions -- these addictions largely destroy their formerly normal lives, e.g. they can no longer hold a job or their relatives throw them out."
So homeless in quotation marks, as in homeless, so to speak...
Before coming to South Korea, I had no idea what the homeless situation here was like, and a tourist on a, say, five-day vacation would most likely not see any homeless people, or would he see all the old people collecting cardboard to resell. My entire photography project is to show what not's normally presented.
Anyway, you travel to see firsthand what a country is like, but you must walk for miles through regular neighborhoods, and hang out with ordinary people.
Here in Busan, the shabbier neighborhoods are up the hills, away from the ocean and subway stations, so if you're here, you should hike up those hills...
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