In my retirement, I do civil rights work, where a picture really is worth 1000 words. I often visit our local jail. As I left one day, I photographed the gleaming silver of the barbed wire as it glistened in the sun. There's so much to tell the world about the human condition. And never enough time. I need to do better.
Welcome aboard!! In the wide world of photojournalism a picture can indeed say a thousand words. Do you also travel to some of the worlds more impoverished nations and capture the deplorable living conditions there? By comparison, things aren't nearly so bad here in the USA. Thats not to say we live in a perfect world, just that far more work need to be done in places where extreme over population, starvation, pain and suffering, police brutality are the norm.
cteevan wrote:
In my retirement, I do civil rights work, where a picture really is worth 1000 words. I often visit our local jail. As I left one day, I photographed the gleaming silver of the barbed wire as it glistened in the sun. There's so much to tell the world about the human condition. And never enough time. I need to do better.
Welcome to your forum!
The perfect photograph of the human condition may not have been taken. Never sell yourself short. It takes many years to get the right photo. For many, countless rolls of film may have sacrificed their grain. Keep shooting till you are satisfied. They you can rest. I have many more years before I can stand on my laurels.
Welcome to our forum! - from a former Long Islander - East Rockaway.
Welcome to the Hog, enjoy.
Welcome to UHH cteevan, glad you joined us.
Have fun, learn and enjoy the forum.
Don
Welcome to the forum.
Mark
Welcome to the forum. I'm looking forward to seeing some of your images.
jack
I was hoping to make it over to Ukraine - a neighbor's daughter was doing volunteer work there. I wanted to report on the ground and what was going on. Now she's been transferred to London. If she goes back, maybe I'll get my passport in time to travel.
That said, I think it's important to shed light on the problems with the U.S. Justice System, the targeting of Hispanic immigrants who have fled danger in their own country but are vulnerable here, the segregated black populations in the U.S. and the way lawyers -- typically white men with inferior legal education and low test scores who are indifferent to the effects of their bad criminal defense work -- profit off that condition. The press ignores them completely, probably because the press has no idea what's going on in those communities.
Other people are working on poverty in foreign lands. I am the only one working on these issues in Nassau County. I am not good enough - yet - to depict these victims in pictures. Maybe I'll get better.
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