Jim is perhaps my favorite photographer. Not so much for the photos themselves, but for the ideals from which he makes them.
He is now 56 years old, and he’s still out there doing it.
My profession is redeemed by his humanism.
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Seaghn
I was born in 1962 under the sign of the Lion. What I have done as a photographer is unimportant to me. What is important is what I am going to do. I love my job. Photojournalism is my life. Photography is life.
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Ppl such as yourself, are the documentors of hisotry though your documents of pictures. I applaud you and others such as you for taking the chance with your lives to get those pictures out to us. Happy new year. and may you always have the great fortune to get the best of the pictures ever.
Thanks for your kind thoughts. We sent home the pictures from Sarajevo and no one cared. We sent home the pictures from Rwanda and no one cared. It is heart warming to hear these things once in a while. The applause of the world means nothing to me. Only that it has to be covered. To continually remind us of the madness.
~S
“The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I am benefiting from someone else’s tragedy.”
…”if I ever allow genuine compassion to be overtaken by personal ambition I will have sold my soul.”
In a pure materialistic sense, everyone does that. Doctros do, transplant recipients definitly do, even I as a mechanic do. Sad reallity is that we all have to live in this world.
However, the second quote points out that this is not done for material gain. It is your humanity that gains.
You should check out RubDMC’s series . Every time he posts those hard to see photos, he honors those in it. They are hard to watch, but they bring a sense jof reality to the suffering ofthose in the midst of a war