Photographing Disasters

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Unless you are a news photographer, you don’t want to be around when disasters happen. But, natural or man made, they happen and there may be a time when you and your camera are present when something happens or arrive on the spot soon after the occurrence.* Taking photographs of a disaster, their aftermaths and [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ProudPhotographyBlog/~4/473341348

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[LensBaby]

After I read the first several lines of this article, it made me think of James Nachtwey. When I read that part about people saying that type of photography is not "legitimate" I thought of James, and his photographs. How in the world could somebody ever say that what HE does in not legitimate? If it were not for photographers like him, we would never know the extent of disasters going on around us. Sure, we might HEAR, what is going on, BUT it is nothing until you see with your own two eyes what is happening. I enjoyed reading that blog post. Thanks