A poem by British poet Sheena Pugh called Cameraman: You must see all suffering, all cruelty, all injustice, all pain: you must fix your eye on the starving, the tortured and the executed: you must look away from nothing. You must not turn your hand to feed children, nor to caress the dying, nor to defend victims. You keep the lens in front of your mind, that others may reach into pockets, knock on doors, dig wells. You are the itch in others; you can make them see clear, if only you watch exactly; if you record just what happened. Do not be tempted to turn the camera inward: your stricken looks are no concern of the publics. They need the word on what you saw, not how you felt. It is they who must feel they saw it; they were there; so involved, they condemn somewhat the remote likes of you.
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 23:25:15 +0000
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