Dewi Sant
Veteran
- Location
- Lancashire, England
- Name
- Guess?
While I see photography primarily as a form of documentary, I pick and choose what I want to document. If it doesn't feel right, I don't press the shutter, or delete if I feel the image doesn't do anything positive.
And, I think that's the bottom line - the judgement has to made in each particular case and sometimes it can be a hard call. The "skill" is in deciding where the line is and whether you choose to cross it or not. I was in Auschwitz shooting photos a few years ago and grabbed images of some pretty horrific things there which seemed a good idea at the time, but when I got back and started work on the PP for my website the full impact of what I'd seen there hit me and I decided to dilute it down from my original intention. Everyone knows what went on there, it's well enough documented without people like myself adding to it. It's hard to describe but it felt like I was sensationalising it a bit too much, which I simply wasn't comfortable with.
Ironcally I'm going back there again sometime in 2014 and also to Oradour sur Glane (Google it).
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