Before yesterday I'd never been told that my photography could end up causing the direct death of someone. So that was an interesting milestone.
Saturday mornings keynote featured the International Activist Blogger Scholarship Recipients. Anyone who was there will back me up when I say that these four women are doing great, inspirational things.
Those four women are also doing dangerous things.
So that's where the photography embargo comes in. Because of some of the activism that these women are involved in, it is imperative that they're not photographed. The organizations who would have them killed, do not know what they look like, and we'd like to keep it this way.
Shortly before the keynote began the situation was explained to me and I was introduced to the panelists. At that time the panelists, a staff member, Lisa Stone and I went over the ground rules of what would be appropriate. (Absolutely no photos of the women's faces, or anything that could easily identify them.) During the conversation someone did ask if it would be OK if I were to shoot from behind their backs. Lisa and the panelists agreed that they would all be comfortable with that idea.
OK, where are those photos?
Well, I took about 10 photos from that angle. Most of the pictures I took and BlogHer will be available on the Flickr shortly. I will not, however, be releasing the photos featuring the panelists backs. They will be sent to the BlogHer staff and they will decided if it would be appropriate to make those photos publicly available.
So that's the story. If you were a worried attendee I hope your fears are quelled. Feel free to contact me if you have any further questions or concerns.
(And Shannon, if I were in your position, I would have tackled me too.)
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