Fotoparanoia
By Fernando Cascais
29 May 2007
Fotoparanoia
Yesterday, day 28 of May 2007 I was to give a return to popular party of Mr. de Matosinhos in north of Portugal, with my woman and a friend. As of custom I took the Nikon, we eat typical candies and I used to advantage to make some photos.
With some amusements spread for the fair I did not have hands to measure, new old and children to play in the stands. To one given height I took off a photo to a small one in a same helicopter in beards of the father who lay down a strange look to me sufficient. I continued for the fair it are, to photograph here and there until I repaired in two policies that looked at me of insistent form, I did not bind but I distrusted, shortly afterwards I was boarded for the two agents who had asked themselves what he walked I to photograph, there explained but they had not been many vain and they had asked smoothly and embarrassed for to explain to me more good in the squadron that was the two steps from there.
It said to my woman and my friend to go to give a return that I came back already. Finally in the squadron, we obtain to bind to the Internet and I showed one to them of the many perfectly legal sites where it had displayed photos. These sites are of photograph magazines on-line and are seriousness very and visited. I also explained (or I tried) my photograph concept that took me to photograph deficient, old people, children, dogs and everything to them that I consider worthy of my attention. They had found joke to some photos, they had asked for excuse to me and they had followed me until the enclosure of the fair. It finishes the story here? Perhaps yes perhaps not, what I could conclude of this sad episode is it seems that the people suffer from fotopsiose due to one recent case of abduction of small girl in the south of the country that reached international ratios and rhythm of soap opera.
Some people told that she had a couple that he had been seen in the immediacy of the place of the abduction to take off photos you vary it children, then, any poor fellow whom a photographic machine has, and takes off photos, or he seems to take off photos where they are children, he is "paedophile" of certainty, he or she works for a paedophile net. Valley the same formula for any individual, with Arab profile, who travels with a sport bag, in a meter or a convoy of some great cities of the Europe. Is a certainty terrorist, or for less thus sees or imagines it its fellow travellers.
The Reality, in the truth is very treacherous, or better, it does not exist. One of my photos the one that I call " John Lennon sunglasses " is, in the truth, a photo of two round mirrors and a sewing machine, when I give to this heading photo, I appeal the imagination of the observer, if this sees two simple mirrors solely, can deduce that it has a little imaginative mind, is much land the land and it does not have artistic spirit. However if the observer sees the face of John Lennon for backwards of the mirrors, can conclude that he is somebody with a fertile imagination, artistic vein and until a little psychotic, because he sees something that in the "reality" is not there.
That is I validate for what he happened me, the father intoxicate for the notice, sees in the man with the machine, paedophile search of victims, and in turn it influences the police them that they find that is not normal to take off photos is to who will be. In a parallel history if I took a knapsack, I had Arab profile, and I was in Madrid or London could perfectly have been abated.
There therefore, my wanted friends, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, we go to have calm, and to control this wild imagination, contaminated for thousand of hours of television wiring. What we take for reality it does not pass much of the times of a conclusion taken off for our magnificence brain that in self management gives more credits to fiction of that to common-sense. Yes, because ray is that one "paedophile" would walk to photograph, with wide angle lens in front of all people and with the greater of wills, when this type of activity can be made with a telephoto lens and the greater of the descriptions. The vision is most magnificent of the five senses, but he is also that one that more in deludes them, because most of the times, the things are not what they seem. The photograph he is something does not teach, or you have photographic eye or you not had. If not, have no university that in it is valid them because the photograph is the most perfect of all arts, is treated to freeze the time, and this is not task for any one because implies the presence of the human or animal element. Therefore it, is that why I do not give to great value to photograph of landscape or abstract, photo without human element or animal, it can have been done for robot of the Pathfinder that settled in Mars. Please not forgotten, after all the Universe does not pass of a hologram. Or not?
Kaskais 07
p.s. please forgives my bad English but my web translactor is chinese (made in China).
p.s.p. ok the english is bad but the story is true.
