UNphotographable

UNphotographable... İlginç ve hoş bir site. Sitedeki yazılar "this is a picture i did not take" diye başlıyor ve yazılarda, Michael David Murphy adlı fotoğraf sanatçısının çeşitli nedenlerden dolayı çekemediği fotoğraflar sözel olarak anlatıyor. Şu sayfadan site hakkında daha fazla bilgiye, şu sayfadan da sitedeki bütün yazılara ulaşabilirsiniz. Bu arada, site sahibinin fotoğraflarını yayınladığı kişisel bir sitesi de varmış...

This is a picture I did not take of a train conductor who approached me and asked, "are you a terrorist?" and then explained (while keeping his distance) that a few passengers were scared because they'd seen me taking a photograph of the train, and that he "had to check and see" what I was up to. It probably didn't help that my Rolleiflex looks exactly like a dirty bomb and that my Boston Red Sox hat clearly shows that I am depraved enough to waste my time rigging said Rolleiflex with depleted uranium and an explosive disperser.

While this may not be a picture of a train conductor who was just doing his job, or of the scared Americans who believe that a man on a train platform with an antique camera and a cable release is a terrorist, it is a picture of the sad, desperate, hate-filled state of my country's paranoia, which, with each televisable missive from that little house on the prarie of Pennsylvania Avenue, is turning its citizens into fear-based automatons that only respond to what's on cable, (as long as it's a station owned by Rupert Murdoch).
All hail the message when the message keeps you incurious, complacent, and scared straight out of your little, stupefied minds.