الكتابة بالكاميرا .. نورالعيون الاتي من السماء ، مجلة فن التصوير اللبنانية _ ع ١

The light of eyes that comes from the sky. When a person gets sick or a disaster befalls him, he raises his hands to the sky, asking for help. And here it is, the aid plane, carrying with it the sight of the poor who are deprived of this blessing in various parts of the world. The plane called ORBIS. - The Greek word means world or globe - a metaphor for a flying hospital that includes millions of dollars' worth of equipment donated by surgical equipment manufacturers. And two American surgeons who specialize in eye and plane surgery as well. It is a model, DC-8 - provided by United Airlines (UNITED AIRLINES), and it travels around the world, bringing with it the blessing of sight for the poor blind who otherwise would have spent the rest of their lives in complete darkness. This hospital plane visits 18 countries every year. It was planned that 12 million blind people would be seen in one decade - that is, every ten years. This reportage was filmed in Panama City, the first stop of the plane, Orbis .. by Susan Gray. The Associated Press photographer performs ten surgeries a day, and at the same time eye surgery is taught through a television network connected to a private classroom. It is adjacent to the operating room, and the video equipment allows doctors and nurses to watch these operations like the flesh of the retina. And eradication and transplantation in addition to corneal surgery and all the treatments provided by this flying hospital are free of charge

As soon as the image entered the field of journalism, it became firmly established in it and became one of its main pillars. From then on, what was known as reportage arose, i.e. a journalistic investigation that depends mainly on the image, and the matter developed until the speech became diminished to cover the image in a sequence of images that dispenses the reader with the text. . Most of the published space, then came the reportage that the camera writes from God to its end, so that there is no longer any words except the names of people and places, and this means that the camera has become - a writer, and an independent journalistic expression tool, with its own approach and expressive style. In this monthly section, a machine, of a photographer, analyzes an event, as an example of writing with a camera.