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Day 4 - Art vs. lack of taste
Published: 06 April, 2011, 11:14
Edited: 06 April, 2011, 22:31
The day started with a nasty surprise from above – we woke up in the morning to realize the Zone was covered in snow. It was green and sunny the day before, now it was all white. Pripyat snow The sunlight, which was creeping out along the horizon, suggested this was a temporary sight. And this made our first shooting location – a rather unpleasant one as it was – even harder to work at. We...
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''Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footsteps'' ~ The Urban Explorer
Hello, Ipz, and welcome to JoshuaPundit.Let's not mince words here. The Russians had this anpnled well in advance. They sponsored attacks by their proxies in South Ossetia on Georgia for months prior to the war, and they had a full combat force ready to go in when the Georgians responded.Given how poor the Russian military is at logistics generally, they had everything in place beforehand.And BTW, no reputable journalists who aren't Russians have found any evidence of Georgians deliberately targeting civilians or comitting a `genocide'...although the Russians and their Ossetian militia 'allies' obviously had no problem with going after civilians.What this is about is Russia wanting its empire back and wanting to be able to blackmail Europe by taking control of the last pipeline from Central Asia that wasn't Russian controlled.And I agree with you...the EU IS a bunch of craven hypocrites to allow it.Russai is a dying nation, and they'd be much better off spending their petrodollars on their infrastructure an dinvesting in their country rather than invading someone else's. But then, Putin and the other apparatchnicks have no real interest in Russai aside from raping its wealth anyway. Like his pals, Putin's $40 billion dollar fortune is squirrelled away in Switzerland and Liechenstein.Regards,ff
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I think a lot of photographers and tourists place the gas masks on the children's dolls because they are trying to get the most artistic and emotional shots possible. I think looters and photographers have moved most, if not all the objects in Pripyat's buildings from their original positions. When I visited the kindergarten in Kopachi, there was a stuffed bear in one room. I had previously seen that bear in at least 5 or 6 photos, all in different positions.
I agree with you - it is difficult to understand why they need to move these objects. If the photographers were really artists, they would find a way to take compelling photographs without moving anything. I spent 2 days in the Zone and didn't move anything for the sake of a "better" picture. I really dislike posed photos like that, especially from places like the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.