freespirit wrote:
Photographers are not really appreciated and luckily I had a local guide with me who could explain that I just wanted to bring back a few pictures. Finally most people accepted it.
Nice Series Guy. Could you expand a little bit about how the local guide helped you become accepted so that you could bring back a few pics. And did you have to be seen without the camera a few days until you were accepted?
people can become very aggressive when you walk around with a camera (BTW this is happening everywhere, even in our countries, some people don't like to be photographed, and that's a normal human reaction). The fact that you are with a guide is helping. He is playing the role of a kind of public relation, telling people asking questions that you don't mean any harm and you won't take pictures if they explicitely say they disagree. The guide is also giving some presents in your name to the children to get accepted (they do not recommend to do it yourself) - typically you can help the children with things like paper, pens, anything they can use at school. At the end you can have a normal discussion when they see you are just interested in their lives, trying to understand them, and respecting them.
Guy