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· 4 years ago
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My good friend was a nature photographer for a while. (Nature as in they filmed nature, not as in they were a photographer for the nature company.) They also did documentary work. They say that for them anyway, it was very hard sometimes. They’re supposed to document and not interfere, and wether it was seeing an animal starve or get eaten, or seeing humans suffer- and having to just film it and not intervene- they didn’t care for those aspects.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
In nature they could at least reconcile it- save the cute birdie and the little rodents babies die- if the rodents die the birds put multiply their environment and you haven’t done a “good” thing but you’ve done a bad thing. We talked about it and they said that work really instilled in them an understanding that good and bad are relative, they said after awhile the nature stuff didn’t bother them as much because they realized that all these creatures were just trying to survive, that good or bad didn’t enter the equation. That for them to help one was often to harm another, and they came to think in terms that if all these creatures are trying their hardest...
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guest_
· 4 years ago
If the mouse is trying to not get caught as hard as it can, and the Owl is tying to catch the mouse as hard as it can, and both are just doing it to survive- having the power to help one or the other didn’t give him the right to do it, to interfere with that, to take what he saw should be the fruits of all their hard efforts away. He despised documentary making where things were manipulated for the shot for this reason. He figured if you didn’t have the right to help them, you didn’t have the right to interfere so you could get that golden shot.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
After a few drinks he’d sometimes wax religious- pontificate on his thoughts that perhaps that was the story of the garden of Eden and maybe how God felt, I usually would laugh and say that only a documentary film maker would compare god to a documentarian. But we did have some interesting discussions and they had lots of cool stories and film and photos even if we didn’t always agree on certain philosophical points, it was interesting.
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nightkami
· 4 years ago
Ngl man usually I give your comments a TLDR response but I really like that perspective. Kudos to your friend.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
Thank you. He’s a cool guy. I haven’t seen him and probably 5 or so years. But we’ve texted occasionally. I miss our chats. I’d like to have a deep conversation and find out what he’s been seeing and what he thinks now after all this time.
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