Showing posts with label Geneva Tram 16 Moellselaz vision witness weaver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geneva Tram 16 Moellselaz vision witness weaver. Show all posts

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Vision/Connection - The Poet on Tram 16 to Moellselaz and a Question


Q. How would you approach this situation, this man, or the receiving/taking of his image?

I see this man as a poet and an artist. In our architecture and justice film for qualitative analysis class this fall, Brenda Waugh and I explored the responsibility of the witness/researchist in presenting images of individuals in a responsible way; by way of relationship with the individual.

Photographer and restorative justice pioneer Howard Zehr lives his philosophy that you don't take images - you receive them and you develop a relationship with your subject.

Is presenting this image taking something from the man in this film? He obviously wanted to convey a public message. Some I've talked to think perhaps he is not all there mentally. But are any of us all there mentally who stand up in a crowd and try to speak a message?

He was warning the crowd about something...