I like to give people dignity in my photographs. I have to find a way to give people dignity. But I found it extremely hard to give people dignity in Liberia last week. How do you give dignity to a woman who is laying dead in front of the hospital and no one comes and picks her up? Here is a dead person and here is life going on--something creatively digestible that my editors would publish. It is the rainy season in Liberia. You dont have that contrast of light and dark that allows you to give a sense of hope--there is a void of the use of light. I found it very hard to give dignity and present the true scenario that is almost apocalyptic in Liberia. It was very hard, a challenge.--from an interview I did for a story on journalists covering the Ebola crisis to be published tomorrow. The photographer, a three time Pulitzer prize winner who just left Liberia covering the Ebola pandemic, said it was one of the most challenging assignments I have ever had.
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 00:29:55 +0000
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