Sudan / The Cost of Silence
Posted on March 16th, 2007
A friend and colleague of mine has really been on a roll lately. Ryan Spencer Reed’s exhibition, Sudan: The Cost of Silence, has been generating quite a buzz on the web and in the universities. This project was started several years ago and is finally getting some of the recognition it deserves. The exhibition has been touring colleges and universities around the United States for some months now, and just finished a showing at the Holocaust Museum of Southwest Florida.
I can picture everyone’s eyes rolling as I’m writing this. Another post about how we should all go back to shooting film. How digital has ruined our craft. How all the young up and coming photographers have no fundamental understanding of the photographic process. Trust me, I am just as tired of this argument as the rest of you. Fortunately this post has nothing to do with the benefits of film over digital. I still shoot film and most likely will continue to do so until it is no longer available. However there was a time when I shot nothing but digital. That doesn’t mean you should go back to film. It really doesn’t matter either way. Just as a novel is not the product of the pen but of the author, a photograph is the product of the photographer, not the camera. Why I love my old film cameras has to do with simplicity.
Last month Bill Pierce over at
