My wife sometimes accuses me of ‘living inside my own head’, and perhaps she’s got a point. After all, when you spend your life wrenching images from a TV news camera, it’s easy to become a tad detached. Squander enough time peering through that glass and you’re sure to get tunnel vision. After a while, it all those black and white images look the same.
There may indeed be a millions stories in the naked city, but they could all be divided into a mere dozen categories. So instead of dwelling on the slow parade of pedestrian news events, we photogs concentrate instead on the art of the grab, working filmmaker flourishes into our commando-cam format. The revolving cast of victims, villains and grandstanders is often secondary.
Personally, I often wear my camera like a shield, brandishing it for battle but mostly just hiding behind it. It’s the facet of electronic news gathering I enjoy the most - the spectrum of broadcasting that has nothing to do with overstuffed anchors, delusional producers and smarmy consultants. TV news photography practiced at street level, where the almighty deadline rules the day. In the daily hunt, little else matters.
Except lunch, of course. Lunch is VERY important.
3 comments:
Just seconds before reading this post a skinny blond chic stormed out of my house for the very same thing your wife complains about. It seems that even when I'm with her I'm not with her... Oh well, I warned her I was like that when we first met... it's the artist in us always working on the next project or trying to make the last one better, yes, it's a complusion but that's how we are and it can't be changed.
I'll get over the skinny blonde chic leaving and hope your wife gets over it without leaving.
Lenslinger,
You are most correct...lunch is very important!
I really enjoy reading your blog. Believe me, cubicle land is not nearly as exciting or thought provoking. Joke emails, practical jokes, the Far Side daily calendar (not Dibert, as you eluded to in an earlier post), and an occasional lunch & after work fling with married co-workers is about all the excitment it offers.
You are a very talented writer and I really enjoy reading about your not so ordinary daily life -- keep the posts coming!
-From an old friend in which you have much in common!
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