triz

I am Paul,Patricia's husband.

Patricia is on assignment for some time,shooting HIV affected people in remote villages in South-India.

Thanks for appreciating this photo.

I respect any photograper's work,good or bad..at least people try to put their vision of interest on paper,always apprecieted!

If I have to be honest..I went trough your portfolio and comments and without offence I find your pictures a bit dull,boring.

like tourist shots you know..

Our interest go's more to artistic and documentary photography and I am not sure if someone can learn that..It is a born passion.

Patricia is a photo journalist and try to shoot the "horror of life in B&W" instead of the "beauty of god's creation in color" that you try to find in most of your selection and comments on other photograpers work.(that's my impression anyway).

The world is beautifull i agree,the life is not for most(we have to suffer before enlightenment..)So,our interest on this planet go's to the cruelly treated and the horror-life many people have to lead without any prospects for improvement..that's what Patricia try to show on paper and hopefully will be of little help for those community's...

God is everywhere I imagine,only in some places just a bit more difficult to feel.

I don't know if you went trough her presentations or not..if you can take the time,please do.. Anyway,I am glad you started photography and my only suggestion and advice to you is to keep on clicking..improvement only comes with expierience and practicing!Also in photography suffering comes before enlightenment!

We will follow your future work and if I can be of any help I will leave always a comment.

b.t.w..We are living just around the corner from the Iskcon in Bombay.

Thanks Ivan..This was photo of the week on 25 December 2000,but did you check out the comments on this picture at the time?

like you wrote in a forum some time back,you have the rude and the positive comments.

I agree with you entirely on that subject..I also left a comment pointed to you in that particular forum.

Last week I add 2 more reportages in my presentations,I would appreciate your comments on those if you can find the time.

I'll search for that book..

Thanks!

knap fotoke marjan!

De Paul..

This picture tells you a life story in one shot..To my fantasy the man looks unemployed,struggling through the day,listening to the same blues record over and over..maybe stoned?

The empty plate,etc...

Excellent picture!!

I just love this!

Indian dancers use every single aspect of body and face to tell their ancient story's..this picture makes you want to go to the theatre!

You never shot the Kerala dancers,(forgat the specific name)you know with all the make up?

I like your style,plastic dragon.

There is good humor in your shots.

Good collation!

PS..Appreciate you like my work.

70 million pelgrims gathering in 1 month..breathtaking experience.

lens scanner problem..could not avoid shadows around the

images.

good sence of humor!!

two times 10.

thanks for letting us laugh!

paul&patriz

wauw..your portfolio is indeed stunning.

impressive colour pic's.

Congratulations Tony!!

on your comment to patricia's pow in december you wrote "a real fluidity of movement that makes me want to start again"

if you make pic's like this you should never stop!

we love it!

paul&patricia

dear oliver..you are right,anybody can take a silhouette,but..not like this one,otherwise i would have seen it before..never did.

paul

for me,it is the best pic out of your portfolio..

put your headphones on,look at the image and listen to the song "the girl from ipanema go's walking"...fit's perfectly!

like it very mucho..

paul&patriz

i love the composition..great shot!

i think the comment of the elfs is not necessary but it is also no harm.

you can look at it as just a comment from some people just like you and me!elfs comment will not influence my view on a picture anyway...

take patricia's POW in december for example,that was a rich discussion,70%found the photo not good anough for POW or distasteful or what ever...

that was great,we had a good and funny time reading it,you think it would have been differend if the elfs gave there first comment?maybe,but i don't think so..i agree that some commentators feel that the elfs "owed" them there comment wich is indeed ridiculous.

i liked it without elfs comment but it is ok if they do so.

this "camel train" picture is not controversial,it is a beautiful picture,no comment necessary.

i wish i was on that train to...

2 times 10!!!

i saw your homepage and was really amazed..very impressif work you have there..wauw!!..top level!I RECOMMEND!!

about yours and edward's comments on patriz' POW or "exotic" photo's..i can not interely agree with you.

when you live in that country,it is not exotic anymore,you become part of it,it is the same if you would shoot a picture in your back-garden. Colonisation?? my god..we live in the year 2000 now!...we live on planet earth..don't we???i found your work from a high artistic level,if you are not offended by a litle joke..the colours are really EXOTIC!

in my view.. there are only pictures,wherever you shoot them.take patriz' picture for example..it opend a discussion like never before on this side..more about everything around the picture than the image itself...for some people morally distasteful for others it thatch the soul, that's the beauty of it!

all humans live in there own reality and be confronted with there own emotions wich gives them his or her views of how they feel and see things,thats the only way to discover the truth..actualy it dos not exist,and your pictures are a living proof of what i mean..so?by the way..i don't know anything about photography..this is just my opinion about relativity.PAUL

great contrast..the picture gives a peaceful radiation,like most pictures in your portfolio.

i agree with anton that there should be more heated discussions on photonet..just like last week,but some pictures (like this one)don't have the controversy.for most commentators this is a "nice" picture.witch is just nice...i like it anyway.

thanks for the comments..the good and the bad.

for those who looked in the portfolio,the black and white photograps is my work,paul makes the color-pictures.

we lived and worked the last 6 years in india and traveled the country since longer time.

i spend many months roaming around in varanasi as a reportage-photograper.i worked in hospitals in calcutta and bombay as a volunteer with the dying

people.

about this POW..the man in the picture invited me to photograph the whole ceremonie and had no objection to make this public!also for my other pictures(see portfolio)i had the permission.

i don't shoot as a tourist,the way i always work is to stay with the models for houres,days,sometimes weeks,they trust me that i have no intention to hurt them in there emotions.

they understood it is a reportage about varanasi,

so..this IS varanasi!

i wish you all a happy new year and thanks again for the time you spend on the comments of this image.

PATRICIA

i liked the comments on the comments..it is a funny discussion.of course this is the intention of photonet..

by mistake i made some of my color-pictures from the pyre public in my portfolio,i apologises for this to those who find it distasteful.(it is deleted)

patriz competed in a international exhibition for freelance photographers with here pictures and was highly recommended as a reportage photographer.

she traveled alone as a young woman around india for years and went to rough times to shoot pictures from a culture that she find fascinating.

she loves and respect this beautiful country and to the hindus who are defended i ask you to understand why she choose varanasi as a subject..

it has absolutely nothing to do with sensation!!

it is about live itself.shanti.

PAUL