Re: Uzbek photographer on trial

2010-01-27 Thread frank theriault
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: This is rather an alarming story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8473285.stm Some countries seem to lack self-confidence. I have frequently been asked while abroad not to photograph 'backward' aspects of a

Re: Uzbek photographer on trial

2010-01-27 Thread Bong Manayon
Those are great photos! But sad... On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: This is rather an alarming story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8473285.stm Some countries seem to lack self-confidence. I have frequently been asked while abroad not to

Re: Uzbek photographer on trial

2010-01-26 Thread Christine Aguila
- Original Message - From: Bob W p...@web-options.com To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' pdml@pdml.net Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 3:08 AM Subject: Uzbek photographer on trial This is rather an alarming story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8473285.stm Some countries

Uzbek photographer on trial

2010-01-25 Thread Bob W
This is rather an alarming story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8473285.stm Some countries seem to lack self-confidence. I have frequently been asked while abroad not to photograph 'backward' aspects of a country. This typically means beggars, but often extends to normal

Re: Uzbek photographer on trial

2010-01-25 Thread eckinator
ouch... that's what you get when you mess with a democratorship, ex CIS ex USSR or any other flavor, they are just not used to having their game questioned... and find it unacceptable of course... think Politkovskaya etc Cheers Ecke 2010/1/25 Bob W p...@web-options.com: This is rather an

Re: Uzbek photographer on trial

2010-01-25 Thread Tom C
Totally ridiculous. Of course if they did not want negative publicity they have a strange way going about achieving it. Where almost no one would have known about the photographer or her photos, now the 'whole world' does, plus they're painting a negative view of their country with regard to

Re: Uzbek photographer on trial

2010-01-25 Thread Charles Robinson
On Jan 25, 2010, at 3:08, Bob W wrote: This is rather an alarming story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8473285.stm Holy crap. Those are great photos. The Uzbek authorities should be pleased that she has made the country look so beautiful (well, maybe not the circumcision

Re: Uzbek photographer on trial

2010-01-25 Thread Sasha Sobol
Here are some stuff about this case (beware of machine translation): http://translate.google.com/translate?js=yprev=_thl=enie=UTF-8layout=1eotf=1u=http%3A%2F%2Flibertysu.livejournal.com%2F1956.htmlsl=rutl=en On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: On Jan 25,