Hey, just wondering when you're going to apologise to the photographer. It wasn't a jack-up at all ... the girl has been quoted as saying she wanted to "play in the earthquake" and the photographer got lucky. If your gonna dish dirt you shld have the grace to apologise - September 13, 2010 8:12 PM
I did a search and discovered that the Sunday Star Times published a follow-up to the story saying:
"LITTLE MYRO McKee became the face of the Sunday Star-Times earthquake coverage when she featured on the front page last weekend.
The five-year-old was pictured in the rubble by Christchurch photographer Jane Wyles, a shot that prompted some readers to complain it was staged or sensationalised. It was neither."
According to the paper,
"She says the family sheltered under a table at the time of the quake but she was allowed out later in the morning, when Wyles photographed her in the rubble outside her nana's Sydenham home. "I was looking at all the earthquakes," she says
Call me silly, but look at that picture again; does that rubble look like it was from a "home"? And with all the after shocks, why was a little girl allowed to "play" in the rubble?
Oh... actually she was "looking at all the earthquakes." ;)
Assuming little Myro was looking at the rubble when the photographer saw her and she was asked to squat among the fallen bricks for that shot; that technically is still a JACK UP photo.
Sorry, Mr / Miss "Anonymous"; no apology needed!
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Comments so far....
Huggies (not his real name), a close friend and a Picture editor commented on my link.
Huggies wrote
"CY , I agree with you. How can there not be a better pic when it is the most jialat (the worst) earthquake in decades? Their worry shd be, are there enough pages to use the most touching pictures.
The problem is most newsroom are run like paper mill.
As I always said "We are the Unwilling ,Ruled by the Unknowing ,
to do the Unfulfilling and Work for the Ungrateful"
Anonymous said...
CH Loh,my protégé and well known photojournalist in Malaysia commented on my link via Facebook:
Loh wrote
"Definitely it was a staged picture, if I was the photographer I will ask her to hold some toys and look through the rubble with her parents that will be more meaningful! Not posing like this, CY, why should you apologise? You are just pointing out the mistake created by the Sunday-Star Times photographer, they should thank you for pointing up their serious mistake...:) :)"
