There’s only one hero in this photo
Written by duckrabbitand it ain’t the fat duck being paid handsomely to hold the microphone. And it ain’t the ‘award winning’ (yawn) war photographer who took the picture. (Yasuyoshi Chiba)
But if you told MSF midwife Sam Perkins she was a hero (for working in a war-zone), she’d tell you to piss off, because she loves her job and to her the way the women in the Congo have dealt with a conflict they can’t escape makes them the real heroes.
So what’s so controversial in suggesting that we don’t put ourselves on pedestals?
Sam Perkins is a midwife for MSF working in Eastern Congo. Each year her team delivers almost 3000 babies; that’s as many as a medium sized UK hospital.
Author — duckrabbit
duckrabbit is a production company formed by radio producer/journalist Benjamin Chesterton and photographer David White. We specialize in digital storytelling.
Discussion (1 Comment)
Two things spring to mind, a quote from Stanislavski, “There are two types of Artists, those that love themselves in the Art and those that love the Art in themselves”
and a Buddhist saying, “The bigger the I the smaller the universe, the smaller the I the bigger the universe”.
A photographer/cameraman should not cast his shadow over the story but use the lens to capture what little truth there is in this world.