Just not sure abouth Krishna...
Dario
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From: Dario Bonazza
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 10:24 AM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: Re: Another PJ in trouble for Photoshopping
Once again, I am word by word with Mr. Contreras, who posted this:
Dear friends, colleagues, detractors, family and my love Therese, To those
who care about this and to those who don’t, This is a very confuse time for
me, and probably for some of you as well. I’m involved in the latest scandal
that has gone through the news media networks. I took a wrong decision once
as I was covering the war in Syria and I’m facing the consequences now. I’m
ashamed about that, but I’m not ashamed about doing what I strongly believe
is my duty in life, as a simple person and as a photographer. I didn’t try
to hide my mistake. I prevented one of the AP editors from using the altered
picture recently and it brought me severe consequences in my working
relationship with the news agency. I don’t want to excuse myself for doing
something that is vigorously penalized by the purity of photojournalism. I’m
a living example for colleagues, novel photographers and aspirants of
photojournalism of what is not correct to do. Please take my unfortunate
decision as a golden lesson. The Industry will be shaken for a while, but as
part of life, we need the public punishment to teach others. I’m still the
same person that I was when I got recognition for what I’ve done in Syria or
anywhere else. I’m still in the same place where I was when I started
collaborating with the AP. Nothing has changed for me in terms of what I
assume as my duty in life and my commitment to document what I perceive as
the breaking moments for our history. I will keep on doing what I did before
and after AP. The Industry creates all those myths and characters, and I
mentioned how risky it is to be in the position under the highlights. We are
not the story, but we are always turned in to the story by the Industry. The
AP team took their decision following their policy and standards. They could
not do anything else, except this, and I respect their decision. I did a
mistake and I assume this mistake as part of what I’m still learning. In a
perfect world I would not feel even the need to go to those horrible places
to document the human disaster. I know the situation that happened bothers
to so many, to those people I can only say I’m sorry, but my decisions are
not intended to please you and to please anybody else, my engagement is with
Krishna and with the understanding of the world that many colleagues and I,
who risk our lives, do to build a visual memory of our time. Nobody asked me
to go to those places and risk my life to get a story, to photograph, I did
it by myself, and as a consequence I have to assess every single moment the
result of my own decisions. As a moral engagement when I go wrong, I
apologize for it, and I have to account for my wrong actions. I carry out my
duty and my work and I don’t ask you to consider my life, I ask you to don’t
close your eyes to the suffering and injustice of this world. I don’t ask
you to put me either on the highest pedestal or under the lowest
consideration. I’m not the story. I don’t believe that we, as witnesses, are
the story. If I did a mistake, then I assume it, but this does not mean that
I give up. For the entire world, if I make a mistake, or if this is made by
any of us, we cannot stop at this, our commitment is even more important
than this. With love and respect to all of you, Narciso Contreras Hare
Krishna!!!
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