I appreciate the choice to put some good back into the world. You are damned if you do and damned if you don't. Graze the topic of politics and someone will be mad that you are not on their side, another will be mad that you are on their side but didn't comment about their favorite issue. It's exhausting for everyone. We all know where we stand and we get it from all sides already. Nobody is changing anyone's mind. I still inhale the nonsense like a fiend, but I also mostly refuse to comment about it on social media. I would rather give whatever small contingent of my friends and people who follow me something else that isn't the world ending to look at.
Yes! Making everything about politics makes life uglier and damages what could be good relationships otherwise. I find the more people can find shared positive interests, the less the disagreements matter.
You're 100% right though, discussing politics online at all is a losing game no matter what.
I watched that video pretty early so I missed you closing the comments. It's too bad that happened, I enjoyed your commentary and was grateful it wasn't political. I disagree with "everything being political", but that's just my opinion, man. I think it's neat to hear that you were able to be self aware enough to make a choice to stop your ogre-transformation. I also avoid politics like the plague in my online stuff, not so much because I used to be swooped up in such things, but because I know if I get started it wouldn't be a good thing. Anyway, I hope if you are/become a Polaroid secret agent they give you a zillion dollars!
Glad I'm not the only one! The "everything is political" opinion is really starting to permeate more and it's a pretty bleak view of life I think. I have a couple sources of political news and takes (podcasts mostly), but my social media is mostly just apolitical stuff I enjoy. Mostly Polaroid photographers and movie stuff
You said something in your video that PERFECTLY summed up everything.
"This betrays the trust between photographer and subject"
And you know what we get if we, the photographers of the world do this? We get partisan photographers. We get, "May I see your voting record for the last 10 years before you get this gig."
I'm embarrassed to be in the same profession as this photographer, but I'm also emboldened to market myself as a Professional Photographer who is committed to make every subject look good regardless of their party affiliation.
THAT is what a professional photographer should do.
At the same time, shame on the staff for not vetting this photographer. As much as it sucks, in this political climate you need to be better than this.
I appreciate the choice to put some good back into the world. You are damned if you do and damned if you don't. Graze the topic of politics and someone will be mad that you are not on their side, another will be mad that you are on their side but didn't comment about their favorite issue. It's exhausting for everyone. We all know where we stand and we get it from all sides already. Nobody is changing anyone's mind. I still inhale the nonsense like a fiend, but I also mostly refuse to comment about it on social media. I would rather give whatever small contingent of my friends and people who follow me something else that isn't the world ending to look at.
Yes! Making everything about politics makes life uglier and damages what could be good relationships otherwise. I find the more people can find shared positive interests, the less the disagreements matter.
You're 100% right though, discussing politics online at all is a losing game no matter what.
I watched that video pretty early so I missed you closing the comments. It's too bad that happened, I enjoyed your commentary and was grateful it wasn't political. I disagree with "everything being political", but that's just my opinion, man. I think it's neat to hear that you were able to be self aware enough to make a choice to stop your ogre-transformation. I also avoid politics like the plague in my online stuff, not so much because I used to be swooped up in such things, but because I know if I get started it wouldn't be a good thing. Anyway, I hope if you are/become a Polaroid secret agent they give you a zillion dollars!
Glad I'm not the only one! The "everything is political" opinion is really starting to permeate more and it's a pretty bleak view of life I think. I have a couple sources of political news and takes (podcasts mostly), but my social media is mostly just apolitical stuff I enjoy. Mostly Polaroid photographers and movie stuff
You said something in your video that PERFECTLY summed up everything.
"This betrays the trust between photographer and subject"
And you know what we get if we, the photographers of the world do this? We get partisan photographers. We get, "May I see your voting record for the last 10 years before you get this gig."
I'm embarrassed to be in the same profession as this photographer, but I'm also emboldened to market myself as a Professional Photographer who is committed to make every subject look good regardless of their party affiliation.
THAT is what a professional photographer should do.
At the same time, shame on the staff for not vetting this photographer. As much as it sucks, in this political climate you need to be better than this.