As to hiring models being fake, one could ask whether taking pictures for free for our own entertainment is fully moral when we don't give the subjects a copy nor acknowledge their name or pay them! We pay for the camera, lenses and digital media and then for our computers, endless software and hard drives, so why not the people who have no choice but to do their laundry in the street? All these criticisms apply equally to myself as to you or anyone else.
I'd offer for consideration that hiring models is quite honest indeed. They get paid, their name is recorded and they get attribution and respect and have money to feed their family and educate them.
Asher
Are you adressing this to me specifically or in general ?
And where did ' honesty ' jump in from?
p.s edited to add: I have not said hirig models is a fake or dishonest. Neither have I commented
on ' Models' themselves.
I have said in the Title; Fake Smiles. I stand by that. If a model poses in front of a camera, the
entire ' shoot ' is to give an impression that is fake, made-up, not happening in real life.
One has only to see a commerial or a magazine to know what I am referring to here.
In the parts of the world, I visit doing laundry in the open is normal. There is nothing right or wrong about it. It is the way it is. Due to circumstance or otherwise.
Speaking for myself, I have very very rarely photographed people without them not knowing. In almost all instances I have, where ever possible, offered to provide the subjects copies of the
photographs. But invariably they have seen their images as captured in my camera.
People want to pretend that the world is sanitized. Poverty intrudes uncomfortably during their
golf/bridge ( insert appropriately here ) seesions.
People prefer not to want to see death and dying in wars. Sanitize the world. It shall go away;
the poverty and the suffering. And of course the horrible scenes of conflict..man made or natural.
I have seen the luxurious happenings around famous Blvds. and I have also seen the other
side of life..not luxurious, sanitized, ' to be kept away from dining rooms ' side of life.
I do not earn a penny from my photographs ( nobody wants to buy them!! ). But I shall continue
to bring to the notice of those of us that prefer a ' sanitized ' world that there things that need
addressing. So long as one is able to bring what needs to be done in a respectful way ( repectful
to those that are being photographed and with their knowledge and not for personal gain ) I
shall continue to do so.
But hiring a model, to act a role as for example in a hunger situation, is fake. That is my opinion.
That the model, he/she, earns money for his/her part..good luck and more power to them.
Nothing dishonest about it. What they do with their money is their business. Feeding their family
or buying a camera. Their money and good luck to them.
Some people prefer others not to see the reality of the world. Their choice. They might have
gotten used to the perfect world. I do not see it that way.