Sunday, July 13th, 2008...3:53 am
Letter From Prague: No, don’t do that
The tourist, a girl, 17 or 18, American, in cutoffs and a yellow tank top and green flip flops, ambling down the alley off Old Town Square like a duck, stopped, looked at the homeless guy hunched on the church steps, looked down at the digital camera she had gripped in both hands, looked back at the homeless guy into whose line of sight she had by then kind of shuffled into, 15 feet away from the man himself.
I wanted just to say, “No, don’t do that.”
The hands with the camera started rising toward her face, reached chest level, wavered, then went back down. The man saw this and raised his hands in front of his own face. That’s when she took the picture.
5 Comments
July 13th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Yeah, you can yell “NO!” at people like that and they will stop. It really works.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:38 am
But when you get that one shot… the one you know is going to hit people hard… and CHANGE things. Well, then it’s all worth it.
http://mattdavisopenshismouth.com/2008/07/unidentified-sw-4th-mill/
July 14th, 2008 at 10:59 am
NICE ONE!
July 14th, 2008 at 11:55 am
last semester my mother suggested i “just take pictures of homeless people” for my final photography project. maybe if i had… she would like my art, for a change.
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:57 am
you could have taken a picture of her taking a picture of the homeless man, and then asked for her signature on a waiver because you’re making a documentary “about assholes.”
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