Michael
Torque Titan
Okay, there is no picture here and there will probably be next to none. Either way that wasn't the point. The point is to discuss a growing "cult" in the photography sector that I myself have begun to take a look into. However, I think I am to scared to even think about wondering the way many photographers do.
A while ago I posted a link to dpreview.com in which a photographer sneaked into an old factory where, if he had been hurt or shot, many of us would never have known about him in the factory, and his pictures, until some months. Here is a link at istockphoto to a discussion about it: http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=47736&page=1
I think it is interesting that some of the best pictures are taken when rules are broken and danger is present. Maybe it is our typical society and all of the scary movies out there that would make someone like me cringe at the possibility of walking into an abandoned insane asylum or prison to take pictures that may sell well. I don't know.
The point is that many photographers do this and some are starting--if they haven't yet--to make a living of this type of photography. What do you guys think about it? Do you think we will hear news, eventually, about a photographer that was ambushed or murdered, by accident or malice, due to the fact that he was out and about trying to take pictures of something spooky?
Here is another website that conveys this practice of photography: http://www.modern-ruins.com/
A while ago I posted a link to dpreview.com in which a photographer sneaked into an old factory where, if he had been hurt or shot, many of us would never have known about him in the factory, and his pictures, until some months. Here is a link at istockphoto to a discussion about it: http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=47736&page=1
I think it is interesting that some of the best pictures are taken when rules are broken and danger is present. Maybe it is our typical society and all of the scary movies out there that would make someone like me cringe at the possibility of walking into an abandoned insane asylum or prison to take pictures that may sell well. I don't know.
The point is that many photographers do this and some are starting--if they haven't yet--to make a living of this type of photography. What do you guys think about it? Do you think we will hear news, eventually, about a photographer that was ambushed or murdered, by accident or malice, due to the fact that he was out and about trying to take pictures of something spooky?
Here is another website that conveys this practice of photography: http://www.modern-ruins.com/
