On the day
of this interview Debbie not only got some photos but showed up with a bruise and a cut in the middle of
her head. "I was in Hebron," she says, " These things happen." She spends a lot of time there as of late. Her newest
subject.
And this is where the real difference between a hard news photographer and a people photographer is
drawn.
Need an image. The newsperson needs an image, and his subjects are often ready to give it. "Everything is pretty well orchestrated for the press on both sides. Right now Hebron is so full of media that life there seems unnatural. I’d like more time to wander there. If the simplest thing happens, a soldier checking a car - which happens all the time - you have fifty photographers jumping on it and trying to make it into something more.
That's not what I like to do. I don't like to be in that herd of photographers who trample over each other
to get the shot. When I catch myself running to those places I think, ‘this is stupid, this
is not really what’s happening.’ Some of my nicest pictures were taken when the herd is in one place
and I look to the side and find a much truer representation."
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