Quote Originally Posted by OnTerryOh View Post
I've always been bothered by that famous shot of the woman with the green eyes on the cover of National Geographic -- was she from Iraq? -- my thought being that she probably made nothing from that picture. I'd guess the photographer made enough to buy a house or send a kid to college.
Sharbat Gula. Afghan woman in a refugee camp in Pakistan.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/20...irl/index-text

I am also very shy (ETA: Not shy in general but about taking people's pictures.) but I do try to avoid taking photos of people without asking. (I lost many good opportunities.)

One issue in Vancouver, pre-Winter Olympics (in early 2010) is all the attention that the Downtown Eastside gets. It's basically a place with a lot of drug addicts, some street prostitution, and a lot of people having a really hard time in life. It's the poorest postal code in Canada. And journalists are pouring there from all over the world to take pictures of the homeless. There's a good side to it (exposing a problem) but now there are women's groups educating the women who work on the street about their rights and how to turn away journalists. Just because they are prostitutes doesn't take away their right to control their image.