maandag, maart 19, 2007
Patrick Baz: beroemd met de verkeerde foto
Fotograaf Patrick Baz (AFP) vertelt vandaag in The Guardian over zijn foto van het begin van de Irak-oorlog op 20 maart 2003. De foto haalde veel voorpagina's, maar zelf is hij er allesbehalve tevreden over.
I am annoyed that I am so well known for this one picture, because, as a photograph, it's crap. It's just a ball of fire in the sky; anyone with a camera could have taken that. I was just in the right place, at the right moment. After I took the picture I had no idea how important it was. At first I didn't even send it. I waited for about 45 minutes, thinking I might be able to get a better one. In the end I thought, 'Maybe I can get the US east coast deadlines if I send this,' so I did. The next day I had no idea what had happened until the head of another news agency in Baghdad said to me: 'What have you done? Your picture is everywhere.' Then I started getting calls from Paris saying the picture was on the front page of just about every newspaper in the US. I have been a photographer for 25 years, and there are many, many other pictures I am much more proud of. But this will always be the famous one.
Lees het artikel in The Guardian.
I am annoyed that I am so well known for this one picture, because, as a photograph, it's crap. It's just a ball of fire in the sky; anyone with a camera could have taken that. I was just in the right place, at the right moment. After I took the picture I had no idea how important it was. At first I didn't even send it. I waited for about 45 minutes, thinking I might be able to get a better one. In the end I thought, 'Maybe I can get the US east coast deadlines if I send this,' so I did. The next day I had no idea what had happened until the head of another news agency in Baghdad said to me: 'What have you done? Your picture is everywhere.' Then I started getting calls from Paris saying the picture was on the front page of just about every newspaper in the US. I have been a photographer for 25 years, and there are many, many other pictures I am much more proud of. But this will always be the famous one.
Lees het artikel in The Guardian.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 12:18
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