Hi Vic, I'm a Muslim photographer, I've paid off most of my photographic gear by shooting mainly muslim weddings and other functions. There are 4 schools of though in Islam and depending on which one you belong to would either forbid all photography or have entire albums full of family pictures. Its truly funny when the girl's side is from one school and the boys side from another, then you can only shoot one half of the function.
On the other hand its not just certain sects of muslim's that don't like photo's, certain cultures used to or maybe still do believe that you can capture their soul by taking their photograph. I myself have shot thousands of photo's with very very few photo's taken of myself. With me its not really a religious issue, I just hate being in a photograph. And yes if I was in a crowd, and saw someone taking a pic that I would be in I would stop him or walk away, would that make you feel that I'm doing because I'm muslim?? Feroze > > Anyway, this is my (little) story... I'd like to hear some reaction to > that! Maybe this forum numbers some muslim photographers? That would be > really interesting! > > Groeten, > > Vic > > (*) note: I put the woman's reaction as being defensive, implying that I > was the one to be offensive, starting to take the picture. That's just > fair for the sake of the discussion. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
