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When literary photographer John W. MacDonald went to the Writers Festival in Ottawa with the intention of snapping a few of Michael Ondaatje, he was informed by a publicist that no pictures would be allowed. John, who can make even yours truly look good in colour, has been covering the Ottawa scene for quite some time and didn’t want this reading to represent a gap in his near perfect record, so he did what any self-respecting chronicler of our times would do…
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May 18th, 2007 at 6:02 am
Gee, no wonder he didn’t want any candid shots. Posture, Ondaatje, posture!
May 18th, 2007 at 7:15 am
Good for you, John W.M.
May 18th, 2007 at 7:24 am
MacDonald would starve to death as a paparazzo. You’re supposed to ignore the publicists and shoot the photos anyway.
May 18th, 2007 at 10:00 am
Imagine if he’d tried to touch the hem of Ondaatje’s garment…
May 20th, 2007 at 7:45 am
What a pompous jackass prima donna.
May 20th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
I don’t know about that, NW. It was the publicist who requested no photos, not Michael. I wouldn’t be so quick to judge.
May 20th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
How do you know I wasn’t referring to the publicist?
And yet…
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:29 am
Name withheld, do I know you?
May 24th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
apparently the writers festival photographer went up to Ondaatje during the author signing and asked if she could
take his photo and he let her.