Maimed Photographer
January 14th 2008 09:59
I note that Jaqian has a section in his profile on Flickr.com (why did they leave the ‘e’ out?) called Maimed Photographer. It relates to how much risk the photographer takes to get a shot, such as photographing while riding a bicycle, driving, battling a bear (yeah, right), walking a tightrope. Maybe a little tongue-in-cheek there.
But in today’s local newspaper, the Otago Daily Times, there was a photo of a Japanese video cameraman lying on the ground in Myamar, wounded (mortally, as it turned out), taking a photograph of a group of fleeing citizens who were being shot at and beaten by the local gendarmes.
There’s some debate as to whether the cameraman, Nagai Kenji, was killed by a stray bullet, or shot at point blank range. My suspicion is that if it was the latter he wouldn’t have been doing much shooting himself, but some people have enormous courage.
That’s letting your job be your all, I think.
The photo isn't the clearest, unfortunately, as it's hard to get a copy of the original at a decent size. But you can probably see how Kenji has his arm up in the air photographing the fleeing crowd.
But in today’s local newspaper, the Otago Daily Times, there was a photo of a Japanese video cameraman lying on the ground in Myamar, wounded (mortally, as it turned out), taking a photograph of a group of fleeing citizens who were being shot at and beaten by the local gendarmes.
There’s some debate as to whether the cameraman, Nagai Kenji, was killed by a stray bullet, or shot at point blank range. My suspicion is that if it was the latter he wouldn’t have been doing much shooting himself, but some people have enormous courage.
That’s letting your job be your all, I think.
The photo isn't the clearest, unfortunately, as it's hard to get a copy of the original at a decent size. But you can probably see how Kenji has his arm up in the air photographing the fleeing crowd.
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