She also learned from the article that several members of VII had reportedly known about the harassment complaints against Kratochvil. This happened on their watch. Taylor-Lind follows this thread even further. And if something happened to her, where would she go?
Who would believe her? What happens when the same man has to photograph a year-old girl who has been raped? But are these correctives enough if the collateral damage is leaving a string of traumatized and diminished female photographers in their wake? That means there are potentially other bad actors who are being protected, and thus potentially other women who are at risk.
It is ironic that Sinclair, whose work chronicles injustices toward women and girls, cannot tell her own story. The rest of us are luckier: We can choose to speak out, to ask the hard questions, to work to reshape photojournalism for a more just age.
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And in fact, he does a good job. Thanks to his photos the world can get to know about the victims of injustice or unnecessary violence, people who without his coverage would probably be unknown or soon forgotten. Nachtwey documents the devastating effects of wars, human inequality, and famine. In Croatia, for instance, he photographed war victims and families grieving for them.
In such situations the innocent civilians suffer most. He also took photos of families living in a slum area along the railway tracks in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. They came to the capital in search of a more civilized life. But even though they worked hard, they were not able to afford decent houses. Their homes were simple huts made of abandoned wood and plastic, located just several feet from the tracks or in the gravel between them.
One photograph shows a beggar washing his children in a polluted channel. This is one of the families that lived in the gravel between the railway tracks. The father lost one hand and one leg when he was run over by a train, and the only job he can find is begging in the street. But the photograph shows him to taking care of his four children. Day and night they extract sulphur, which is later sold to oil companies. As we can see in the documentary, after photographing them for several minutes Nachtwey develops problems with breathing and seems to be suffocating.
September 11th Photographer James Nachtwey, who is packing his bags in his New York apartment, ready to leave for an upcoming assignment, takes a pause to look out of the window. From his place near Wall St. Just days beforehand, Nachtwey and 6 other photographers had joined forces to start VII photo agency , a photo agency dedicated to documenting pivotal moments in society, and now Nachtwey was facing the biggest terrorist attack in western history on his own doorstep.
He spent the following hours photographing the Twin Towers as they burned and collapsed, and the next few weeks photographing the aftermath that the event had had on the city. VII was named for the number of its founding members, who agreed that photography had become too corporate, dominated by larger companies who would crush any independent spirit.
Emboldened by the new freedom that digital photography granted them, they believed in the dynamism of the collective and vowed to be a disruptive and challenging business, shaking trends in the industry of the time.
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