We talked briefly about voyeurism a few classes ago, when we were looking at street photography. It made me think of the the above images taken by photographer Rich Waters of a girl about to jump from the Golden Gate Bridge. The photos appeared in the documentary "The Bridge", for which Waters was also interviewed. In the film Waters talks about the disconnect between photographers and their subjects. Although he was taking these pictures Waters say it took him a few minutes to fully processing what was going on, he felt very separated from the situation. Luckily, Waters did make the connection and pulled the girl back over the railing before she was able to jump. The whole documentary is very fascinating but also unsomfortable because of the voyeuristic aspect, it's on hulu if anyone is interested. I also posted some of Waters other work, he does mostly really boring commercial photography.
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