re: #90 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Yes, agreed. And the same goes for vandalism. But it’s not being manipulated in order to be documented via photographs. You’re right. I would have no way of knowing if it were manipulated by other people before (I can imagine that patient records scattered along with shattered file cabinet drawers was not the way they were left), but I would expect that a photographer had not done so in order to get a better photograph.

But then, I’ve never been one to go in and stir stuff around just for the heck of it. I’m usually too much enchanted by what’s there when I step foot into the setting.

Like I said, that may be the photojournalism training coming out (and yes, I know there are abuses in photojournalism of manipulation as well).

My photography is “This is what I saw,” not “This is what I created with the pieces that were there.”

Like I said, it’s my personal preference.

No statue of this flag-raising.

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