Burma “stunt”0
neil posted in Travel on October 30th, 2007
This is a “stunt”. I read stunt in the text message from my photo editor. I thought monks, flames, motorcycles, midgets and helicopters. As such I came loaded for bear (robotic dancing bear…) and found…. a group of students wearing red tops. To be honest, its great of them to make the effort, there is a strong apathetic streak with the student body at large. The Annual General Meetings are often inquorate and thus powerless (it might be the lack of the aforementioned stunts). So I found myself trying to articulate their message powerfully. The true, hardline, no distortions photojournalist would have shot a wide angle of a tiny group of students behind a flag lost in the giant splendour of Old College. He’d have also included the Evening News photog and the S-TV camera crew huddled up close to the students. The photo would’nt run. Instead I tucked up close and used my strobe to create SOME drama. There were no chants, slogans and no energy to affairs. The only attendees were us journalists who would bring their cause to a wider audience for them. Are we journalists or an advertising agency? See the shots here.