Roving photographer? Written late January/early February 2013

 


(from alternative journal)

 

She has been doing photo work for The Virgin Mayor -- press release stuff and coverage of events. So, she likely decided she can pursue a career in photography.

She is nearly as good a photographer as she is a poet and artist, although her talents are wasted on press releases.

Last summer, she attended the magazine party, acting as if she was the official photographer, something the owner seemed to approve of.

Lately, the owner has become super critical of all the other writers’ photo stuff and is redesigning our website to be more photo intensive.

And now, he suddenly he proposes I do a photo shoot in my town, and without warning the very shoot he told me to do she posts on her Facebook page, making me wonder if he intends to hire her back to work as our roving photographer – a position we’ve not had since our office issued digital cameras in the late 1990s. He may want her photos to help spruce up our website.

All this makes me wonder if she could not resist bragging about her photos to the owner before he could pull the trigger for my failing to do the shoot -- or perhaps, she showed him the photos before she posted them, inspiring him to get me to duplicate them for our website.

I got word from someone political that there is trouble in her town between her and other people there, and that the Virgin Mayor is expected to step down soon – so, she's scrambling to come back to our office and may be using our owner to do so.

I texted the police director asking him to get me on site today so, I don't get arrested, he hasn't gotten back to me. I also resent an email to the people in charge of the site -- the previous emails at a mistake in the address -- asking them to permit me to shoot either today or tomorrow, just in case.

Two good things come out of this -- although I've barely had sleep.

First, this confirms that she and our owner have continued their relationship even after she left -- and he is likely trying to find a place for her.

She may have acted on her own to do this shoot. He may have talked to her about it when with her -- last Tuesday when he left and came back in a strange mood -- and this would really piss him off that she took the photos and posted them without telling him.

My finding out about it may even scare him, because unsaid in all this is my knowledge of their relationship. The fact that I have one of the sales people and our boss both contacting her for use of the photos makes it impossible for the owner to cover this up.

 

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