“I love the raw emotion of children, because it comes close to the anger and helplessness I feel about our current political and social situation,” says commercial photographer Jill Greenberg about her new exhibition running April 22 to May 27 at the Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.
I feel the same way sometimes.
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“Huh?
I was a photojournalist for about 10 years. I finally got out because I grew
tired making photos of folks who weren’t happy that I was taking their
picture. Whether it was the young man accused of cutting his dad’s head off
and hurling into the street or the school administrator accused of wrong
doing. And there was the part where I thought a little too much about a
photographer I had dinner with the week before he died on a runway in South
America.
Anyway, I moved to studio portraiture where folks except for most kids were
there voluntarily. I always felt badly when a child in my studio cried. It
was never my intent to make them cry. I can’t imagine why someone would want
to make a happy child cry. There are always reason enough for kids to cry
without an adult generating that emotion from a child.
The justification of making a child cry “because it comes close to the anger
and helplessness I feel about our current political and social situation”
doesn’t make any sense to me at all. Try standing naked in front of the
White House on a cold and wintry day and leave the kids alone.
dave dornlas
www.phototoday.net
Comment by Dave Dornlas — April 7, 2006 @ 2:10 pm
Dave, you tell an interesting story, but I’m surprised that as a photographer you didn’t realize that the images ARE NOT PHOTOGRAPHS and I would assume that the artist is not actually making children cry in the studio.
Comment by EveryMan Simmons — September 14, 2006 @ 9:28 pm