safarysocial

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Hi, seeing that there are several groups that organize photographic outings in which dozens of you, camera in hand, get together and go out to shoot different places, loading the photos afterwards, thus spreading news about social concerns and participating in them, which to me is phenomenal, because to create groups with of affinity and contention is one of the basis for every kind of working for the common good, it occurred to me to create a group to organize photographic outings to places and scenes whose purpose would be of a social nature and of which the quantity of photographers that gather sometimes to shoot the obelisk, a tango demonstration, the facades of certain areas, etc.
For example, the eviction of a factory recovered by its workers was witnessed through photography as was its occupation. The themes of struggle and environment, like any other just cause, would give an infusion to the act of social photography and support such causes which are in dire need of it. Moreover, this creates a participation which is good to have and exercise, because all our power is delegated to those who do not represent us. There is an absence of control, documentation, and a high degree of distraction from the issues which really make up our lives, and we all have the aptitude to register facts, scenes, places, and to make them known on a much larger scale, showing our social state of affairs. After all, when something we don’t like happens to us, we complain. But, when it happens to someone else - even though we may not see it in the same light – it also affects us. So, it’s better to be a part of the solution and represent with our greatest energy, time, and resources as a group taking pictures but doing so with meaning i.e. doing something different: photographing to support social causes by adding people to it as well as its corresponding documentation of facts, state of affairs and by diffusing these things. For our first visit we met on a Sunday in Patricios Park, and, apart from visiting the neighborhood and taking photos, we documented the workers and neighbors who support the struggle of the Indugraf workers. (For more information go to: indugraficos.blogspot.com/)
I hope this interests you enough to join, invite your contacts, and to propose visits to other places. Members who aren’t from Buenos Aires can take advantage of that by doing the same thing for the causes in your respective cities. We can even organize and travel to other Argentine cities as it may be required by this crisis. There are so many factories closing and workers trying to maintain their workforce which would be of great importance of document as it would be for other just causes or problems to denounce. That is what gives incentive to our work as a whole and not competition concerning these problems. This is not about a lone news photographer on the scene with the “exclusive photo” of the child dying of hunger and with which a coveted monetary prize is awarded big enough to feed millions.
With such great accessibility to photography and its diffusion, it is necessary now - it seems to me - to document not only to denounce, call attention, and make sure that the facts keep on reproducing, but to intervene in a spirit of solidarity so that photography will not simply a matter of admiration, and privilege that motivates people with the possibilities of prestige, recognition, fame and competition but rather a collaborative act between photographers and their subjects and, thus, the human satisfaction of finding ourselves in others in the best way. I would also hope to achieve, through this assistance, something truly reinforced by the fact that it was done by a group. I would hope participants would have the satisfaction of knowing that the photographic outings they go on will not merely be to practice and distract themselves, but, rather, to spread something good, for with more support, diffusion, eyes that capture the gazes that see them, and hands at work, social conditions can be improved.
Greetings!!!!!!!!!!