On 24/9/06, Vic Mortelmans, discombobulated, unleashed: >Anyway, this is my (little) story... I'd like to hear some reaction to >that! Maybe this forum numbers some muslim photographers? That would be >really interesting!
Tough one. I was filming at a carnival a few months ago and loads of parents and kids were lining up to have the kids' faces painted (bright colours, animal motifs etc). We had interviewed the artists, and were filming parents and kids - including filming interviews with some parents (and in due course asking if it was okay to get some close-ups of their kids' faces - no problem). But being a crowded area there were lots of people there we didn't speak to or ask, and we carried on - but nobody objected. Except one asian woman came over to me after we had finished filming and in broken english explained that she did not want to appear on TV. I smiled, nodded and said I would tell the reporter (who would be in control of the images to be transmitted), and so I did. I later saw the piece go out and there was the asian woman, in a wide shot or two waiting to have her daughter's face painted. Certainly not in close-up, but identifiable. One does one's best to respect people, but when there's a chain of responsibility, the more people in that chain, the less chance of success. Personally I do tend to respect religious preference. If she'd asked me before filming, I would have framed the shots so that she was not in them. Bu that doesn't extend to going back and starting all over again. If she had started wielding hand grenades as a would-be suicide bomber, then I would include her in the frame in close-up (from a safe distance of course :-) HTH -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
