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So why did he publish the photo, if it "no one cares about 'selfies?' I mean if he accidentally shot a photo of his shoes that no one cares about, would he publish that one too?
Is that really the question?
I mean it certainly isn't what the photographer was asking, or rather stating.
The real question, and it is a good one, is why did so many CHOOSE to focus on that one picture when there were 499 other pictures to focus on?
So why did he publish the photo, if it "no one cares about 'selfies?' I mean if he accidentally shot a photo of his shoes that no one cares about, would he publish that one too?
So another questions pops up here, does the photographer have any say in which photos get sent up the wire, so to speak, or does every shot he takes get sent thru no matter what?
“Obama/Cameron Selfie Photographer to TNR: I’m Ashamed of Mankind,” the New Republic reports today:
Roberto Schmidt is the AFP photographer, currently the agency’s chief photographer for South Asia, who captured that infamous snap. Reached by phone in South Africa, he sighed heavily. “Why do people care about a selfie?” he said. “This is a sad reflection of our society.” He’d gone to photograph the memorial with a team of ten photographers. They moved some 500 images on the wire. “Good images, nice, strong images,” he said. “Images of South Africans dancing, smiling, chanting, which is the way they express mourning for a man they consider to be their father.” It was a long ceremony; he took many photographs of world leaders giving speeches and South Africans grieving. And suddenly he saw the Danish prime minister lift her phone to take a photo of her face alongside seatmates Obama and Cameron. Schmidt dutifully clicked away. “They’re in front of you, this happens, you take the picture,” he said. “But I saw so many good images from that memorial. And the picture that’s getting played is the president in a selfie. That’s kind of a bummer.”
They must have not been paid for the rights to the photo. Or they now wish they had charged more for it.
The guy is an idiot. Dont take us for fools. Our eyes didnt deceive us. She was obviously annoyed or upset about something. Probably at the way her husband and new pals were behaving like 14 year old girls at a memorial service.
Something else you can take from all this, besides Obama being a disrespectful 14 year old girl, is how everyone loved to beat up on Bush and the constant "Bush is such an idiot, he is so foolish...". Well, from just that one service, sure seemed to me that it was Bush and even the damn Clintons, who behaved themselves, while our despicable President looked like an immature, ridiculous fool.
It's not everyday you see the President of the United States acting like a 12 year old at recess.
You mean President Bush posing next to Bono like a giddy fanboy? I thought that photo looked fine.
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