By: Richard Wong

Great photo of the airplane gawkers. At first I thought it was two separate images or a print ad until I read the whole thing. I don’t get the whole africa starving people and bleed for freedom type photography though, i got burned out on looking at those articles in the L.A. Times a long time ago. I guess news really means “when the world goes to hell”. I’d rather read something about 95 year old great grandmother’s who still plant 1,000 tulips in their garden every year.

I recently saw a documentary on James Nachtwey called “War Photographer” and it was very disturbing. The most disturbing was his persona. It’s almost as if all that violence stripped him of all his emotions. The guy sounded like a robot when he spoke. I was in awe of his accomplishments but at the same time coudnl’t relate to the subject matter either. Maybe I’ll try to photograph some paintball games with no gear on to get myself into his mind-set.