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Disturbing true story of the Afghan Girl photo


5 years 2 weeks ago #638444 by Ben Vanderbilt
WOW had no idea

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5 years 2 weeks ago #638468 by Shadowfixer1
You need to check the follow up stories from other people on this matter. It ends up being a totally different experience than what Tony put out.
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5 years 2 weeks ago #638501 by Nathan D
There's some good information here:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Girl  
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5 years 2 weeks ago #638555 by the four vignettes

Shadowfixer1 wrote: You need to check the follow up stories from other people on this matter. It ends up being a totally different experience than what Tony put out.


Yup.  The Northrups have been going a little sideways lately.  
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5 years 2 weeks ago #638558 by Nikon Shooter
This demonstrates that behind any discourse,
motivations and biases are the ground value.
Light is free… capturing it is not!
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5 years 2 weeks ago #638559 by Brody Kross
WOW, that really casts a much different light on this portrait than I remember.  
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5 years 2 weeks ago #638571 by Shadowfixer1

Brody Kross wrote: WOW, that really casts a much different light on this portrait than I remember.  

Do not believe this story. It is so full of inaccuracies that Tony is lucky he wasn't sued over it. Do a little more research and you will see. It's a shame that this video is even out there.
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5 years 2 weeks ago #638573 by Nikon Shooter

Shadowfixer1 wrote: It's a shame that this video is even out there.


Using disgraceful "moral" arguments is not convincing me
but definitely put the cover on this guy… a shame.
Light is free… capturing it is not!
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5 years 2 weeks ago #638605 by Little Kate
Holy smokes!  I heard about a video that Tony Northrup was way off on, however I heard it in passing and didn't did deeper or follow up on the subject.  Just watching this, and this is bad.  

But looking at the number of likes on this video vs thumbs down, why did anyone vote up for this? 
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5 years 2 weeks ago #638739 by KENT MELTON
:huh:


Fact find much?
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5 years 2 weeks ago #638944 by Toby J

Shadowfixer1 wrote:

Brody Kross wrote: WOW, that really casts a much different light on this portrait than I remember.  

Do not believe this story. It is so full of inaccuracies that Tony is lucky he wasn't sued over it. Do a little more research and you will see. It's a shame that this video is even out there.


+1, he had to do a follow up story on this too to back pedal 
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5 years 2 weeks ago #638987 by GaryA
I found the entire thing very very odd.  Northrup speaks with such authority, that it is easy to believe him.  But so much of what he said, so much of his qualifications/justifications was on the edge of wrong.  Northrup never identified a person, who was there with McMurry, which would have had first hand knowledge of the experience.  Consequently, most/all of his assertions are conjecture.  While his conjecture has some basis in truth ... it is nonetheless still conjecture.  
There are photographs everywhere. It is the call of photographers to see and capture those images.
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5 years 2 weeks ago #638996 by Jared-Weaver
I've always found Tony and Chelsea Northrop to be completely insufferable. They speak with such authority on things that they become very condescending. 
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5 years 2 weeks ago #639000 by Shadowfixer1

GaryA wrote: I found the entire thing very very odd.  Northrup speaks with such authority, that it is easy to believe him.  But so much of what he said, so much of his qualifications/justifications was on the edge of wrong.  Northrup never identified a person, who was there with McMurry, which would have had first hand knowledge of the experience.  Consequently, most/all of his assertions are conjecture.  While his conjecture has some basis in truth ... it is nonetheless still conjecture.  

Not only was some of it conjecture, a good portion was completely false. 
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