While researching photographies about the 1934 longshoremen strike, I came across these two pictures showing how press photographers looked like back then.

We can see both the gravity of the occasion – Police is about to attack the strikers, and the photographers prepared themselves with gas masks, goggles and rain hats – and a typical way of handling it – joking about.

Source: The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.

Last month I worked for two different children’s TV programmes. One is a 5 part narrative which will be aired in the autum, and the other one is actually shown tomorrow. So, if you happen to be in Norway and are up at 7.30am, tune into NRK1 and enjoy; I did the camera in Kristiansand (but not the foggy concert).

The director gave me a lot of freedom (usually he o.k.’d the shots before he had even looked through the viewfinder). So, I did a couple of so-called dutch shots. Which are shots where you deliberately put the camera unevenly. (Some say that the origin is from the Hollywood of the 1930’s, where a couple of the most inventive directors came from Germany, which meant that they spoke German, which in German is “Deutsch”. Which again, to the american ear, might sound like “Dutch”.)