To be at the right moment, at the right time

Frak Capa, Tony Vaccaro are, along with Henri Cartier-Bresson, the godfathers of the photojournalism.
"Pour les connoisseurs" the "sacred monsters" of the photojournalism.
Lately I was disgusted that a "whatever", regarding the photojournalism ,copyed the title of the 3'rd episode of the BBC's "Genius of photography" documentary named: "To be at the right moment, at the right time", arrogate that this is his proffesional "faith", and all was for a stupid beer commercial (yep the money talk).
I guess the next romanian commercial will have Frank Capa's motto: "If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough".
I was hoppeing that the people who are bussy, in Romania, with the photojournalism, to be more mature and not get back in the 90's, when our country's jornalism was just erecting from te communist stupid times.
I thought that they will have the decency, in this troubled times, regarding generaly the journalism, to have respect for their own proffesion.
The year of 2008, from my point of view, is worse then the romanian photojournalism of the 90's.
A "nobody" from the hystorical point of view has the vanity to name himselfe a "photojournalist".
This happens when the vanity, oppotrtunism, haughtily and self contentness of the non-proffessionals arrogates themselfes the title of: "freelance photojournalist".

Sa fii la locul potrivit, in momentul potrivit

Frank Capa, Tony Vaccaro sunt, venind in urma lui Henri Cartier-Bresson, parintii fotojurnalismului. "Pour les connoisseurs" trei monstri sacri.
Mi se pare dezgustator ca un "putoi" intr-ale fotojurnalismului sa isi aroge copy right, intr-un clip publicitar, pentru o oarecare marca de bere, numele episodului 3 al documetarului britanic "Genius of photography": sa fi la locul potrivit, in momentul potrivit.
Cred ca in urmatorul clip publicitar se va folosi dictonul lui Capa: "If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough."
Ma asteptam ca cei care sunt ocupati cu fotojurnalismul romanesc, in acesti ani extrem de tulburi pentru specia respectiva, sa dea dovada de decenta si profesionalism.
In 2008, din punctul meu de vedere, fotojurnalismul este inapoi in anii '90. Si mai mult decat atat, a inceput prostitutia si a acestei arte care, in mod tragic, este asezonata cu oportunismul, ingamfarea si suficienta ne-initiatilor care-si aroga titlul de "freelance photojournalist".

Aroganta in forma pura

Mai zilele trecute cineva m-a admonestat pentru ca am incercat sa-l invat putin din ce stiu eu mai bine sa fac, editare foto.
Observ, in ultima vreme, un regres grav si dramatic in dorinta unor oameni de a invata si a evolua. Suficienta le confera un aer arogant si plat. Sunt incapabili sa comunice altceva decat grohaitul orgoliului ranit.
Am stat si am incercat, detasat, sa inteleg fenomenul. Raspunsul vine de la sine, lipsa de cultura elementara. Mintea, imbibata de nimic, refuza penetrarea vreunei idei cu obstinatia lui Pinocchio cand era magar. Privirea lor alba, expesia fetei incemenita, precum cea a manechinelor de mucava din vitrine, te izbeste si dezarmeaza fara drept de apel.
Luati aminte copii, cititi Pinocchio... macar! (desi e tardiv)