Wonderful pictures and nice essay Jostein... Bob S. >If you'd like to see some of the images produced for that project, there's an essay about the place on my website et http://www.oksne.net . It's called "fnnoy". No pelt farms there, only a salmon pen.<
On 12/9/05, Jostein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Markus, > I can stay on topic here. :-) > > My first photographic assignment (all done with Pentax) some nine > years ago was to produce a series of landscapes from the local > community where we lived at the time. One day while working the > landscape of a neighbouring island, a Toyota Hilux approached at high > speed. A farmer jumped out and was outright aggressive to me. Nasty > words and threats I will not repeat here. Fortunately I was about 20 > cm taller than the guy, otherwise I think he would have attacked me > physically. > > After a while I got out of him that he suspected me to be an animal > rights activist spying out his pelt farm. I tried to reassure him that > I was not, but he didn't really want to believe me. However, he got > back into his car and let me continue. The experience shook me too > much to do anything more that day. > > As it turned out, he was very tense at the time because a nearby pelt > farmer had been threatened by an activist. This particular activist > had walked straight into the farm and began taking photos of the caged > animals with flash. Later, the photos turned up at the local photo > club, and it was all too obvious that the activist's behaviour was > scaring the animals badly. Besides, the photos were not good. > Overexposed, slightly blurred and not really showing the > photographer's intent. I was a teacher at that time, and to my > surprise the activist was one of my students; a woman of age 25. > > Over the next couple of days I talked things over with her, and > learned her reasoning. She had much love and empathy for the caged > animals, of course, but it was all emotions and no knowledge. She > categorically denied that her behaviour at the farm had scared the > animals. She was confident in that the animals, mostly silver fox, > would get a much better life if the cage doors were just opened. I > asked her specifically what she believed would happen to the local > wildlife, and she replied that she couldn't care less. :-o > > The nice end to the story is that the farmer came to see the > exhibition a year later, and then came up to me and apologised his > behaviour. > > If you'd like to see some of the images produced for that project, > there's an essay about the place on my website et http://www.oksne.net > . It's called "fnnoy". No pelt farms there, only a salmon pen. > > Finally, I'd like to say that I'm not particularly in favour of pelt > farming. I just find the methods of the activists to be outright > stupid. > > Jostein > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Markus Maurer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 2:48 AM > Subject: RE: No fur, No photos > > > > Hi Jostein > > I disagree completely with you here. > > Do I really have to look out for some (Pentax) photos of Scandinavia > > pelt > > animal farms and show them here to stay on topic? > > greetings > > Markus > > > > The foot-soldiers are just naïve young > >>>adults with reduced ability to see the consequences of their > >>>actions. > >>>In other words, prime candidates for darwininan selection...:-) > >>> > >>>Jostein > >> > >>> > > > >
