We Asked 13 Photographers About Their Worst Moment on a Photo Shoot – Feature Shoot

We Asked 13 Photographers About Their Worst Moment on a Photo Shoot – Feature Shoot

© Muir Vidler Muir Vidler: I was shooting an international beauty pageant in Libya. On the last day, the organiser somehow arranged that we’d all go and meet Colonel Gaddafi,…

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Our Libyan friend told me afterwards that Gaddafi had gestured to me and asked who I was. “A photographer,” he was told. “Then where’s his camera?” he asked. His aide apparently replied, “I don’t know. Maybe he forgot it.’ It’s horrible standing with your hands in your pockets with no camera, watching something that’d be great to photograph.