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A Conversation with Bruce Haley Joerg Colberg has a great conversation with Bruce Haley, where they talk about everything from stoking the flame of idealism, what raising an autistic child did for his documentary work, and image saturation. So where does that leave us, as photographers? Do we shrug our shoulders and give up? Do we let people drift off into an ever-more-comfortable slumber, awash in a sea of news about Britney and Jessica and Jennifer? Or do we push onward and fight for whatever impact we can have, through whatever venues are available to us? I apologize for the string of rhetorical questions, but this is very important to me personally - plus, there are many young photographers out in the field every day, just starting out, doing great work, taking risks, and receiving very little reward and encouragement. I try to provide some of that encouragement whenever possible. And even if we're not having the impact that we would like in our lifetimes, remember that we are also historians, and who knows what impact our images may have when viewed through the prism of history? For those unfamiliar with Haley's work, he received the Robert Capa Gold Medal for his 1990 coverage of Burma's bloody ethnic civil war. Unfortunately, there isn't a lot of his imagery out there on the World Wide Web, but this site has a fairly comprehensive bio and set of post-Communism images at the bottom. 
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