By: Shane Lavalette

Shane Lavalette — Fri, 18 May 2007 06:29:22 +0000

I’m not sure that it’s necessarily ‘easier’ to photograph, but certainly easier to fantasize about your subject when it’s exotic — entertain the unfamiliar. I’d love to come visit your “land” and photograph and if my summer wasn’t so packed full of trips/commitments already, I’d surely take you up on your hypothetical offer! I’ll be in VT in August, though. Will you be around?

By: Joseph Peila

Joseph Peila — Fri, 18 May 2007 01:46:20 +0000

I don’t remember the name of the photographer, but someone did a book on a small town I believe in Ireland, they did it and gave books to all the people in the town, the photographer was “an outsider” like you mentioned and many people did not think that the photographer represented the town in a good light. Joerg comment is true, as when you are living somewhere everyday, to look at it from a strange point of view is very difficult, but if you go to a place you are not familar with, it may be easier to photograph as you have no pre-consieved ideas, other then what you have seen and read, which is small compaired to the images that one comes across on a daily basis.. come to my “land” and you would see it differently then me, I find it interesting, but difficult to photograph, I want to look at it again as a stranger.

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