If the winning photos of the Mining Association of Canada’s “Keep Mining in Canada” photo contest, as published in your Aug. 28 issue, are seriously meant to portray mining in Canada, that message will not get across.
The winning picture indeed shows “character, enthusiasm and hope” in the eyes of the young miner, but where is the relation to keeping mining in Canada? This is a nice picture, but it would have been better chosen as third or second prize rather than first. The picture of the female worker also showed nothing of keeping mining in Canada, other than that possibly all cultures and both sexes depend on mining. A picture of a headframe would have had more impact.
The idea that bare bottoms are supposed to convey a message of safety at all times is an insult to those people who work hard at safety. Levity is fine, but not when you are trying to get a serious message across, as, presumably, was the intent of this contest. And where would you display this particular photograph? Certainly not where the public would view it.
I can only assume that, in choosing these pictures, the judges did not realize the impact these photos would have on people in the mining industry, and on the public.
Ivy Fisher, Spanish, Ont.
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