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Viewer or Voyeur - Somalia Stoning
Gerry Melendez, Photographer
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Columbia | SC | USA | Posted: 11:58 AM on 03.09.10 |
->> Interesting article on The Guardian website regarding a set of images that won 2nd place General news story in World Press. The images depict a stoning in Somalia. The story asks some questions about the ethics involved in bearing witness to the act and capturing the event. A warning, the images are graphic.
Here's a brief explanation:
Viewer or voyeur? The morality of reportage photography
Do you look away from images of real-life horror, or look closer? A series of shocking photographs from Somalia asks disturbing questions about the ethics of bearing witness.
here's the link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/mar/08/world-press-photo-sean-o...
Here are the set of photos
http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=view&...
Considering all the photogs that covered the recent Haiti disaster, my main concern is the emotional impact stories like these can have on the shooter. I remember covering an Albanian refugee camp during the Kosovo war. The camp was made up of women only. All the men from their village had been killed by Serbs. The women would gather at the same time every day and wail. The sound was deafening. Women, girls, crying for their loved ones. It wasn't until months later that it hit me while eating breakfast with my wife. The sound of those wails is imprinted in my mind.
Gilles Peress' quote says it all and the reason these events need to be documented.
"I'm gathering evidence for history, so that we remember." |
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Gary Gardiner, Photographer
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 2:56 PM on 03.09.10 |
| ->> Gerry, thanks for posting that stuff. That's something that a folks need to think about when they want to document events in a disaster/war zone. You can own all the photo equipment in the world and have everything you need to complete your job but the emotional risk you put yourself at is something I don't think most photographers even remotely consider. And it is something that can come and knock you on your ass for no reason at a later date.... |
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Ian Halperin, Photographer
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Plano(Dallas) | TX | USA | Posted: 3:12 PM on 03.09.10 |
->> Maybe it's a little thing but...I'd really like some caption information. Was the man convicted of a crime and sentenced to this fate? Was it random? Is this common?
Context can go a long way in determining how I respond to images like this. |
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Nic Coury, Photographer
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Monterey | CA | | Posted: 3:34 PM on 03.09.10 |
->> Thanks Gerry for the link. I think a few of the photos were in the current NPPA News Photo mag. Nuts work...
I agree with Chuck, in situations like this, there are so many other factors to consider other than f-stop.
Even in my little world in Monterey, Calif., and covering gang homicides of non-gang victims and photographing evicted and rough families, there are still a handful of stories that haunt me and I will never forget the look in the eyes of my subjects. It is something that never leaves you. |
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Israel Shirk, Photographer, Assistant
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