The Dangers of Being a D Mag Photographer

Our staff photographer, Elizabeth Lavin, is on assignment in Honduras (you’ll have to wait to find out why). But she almost didn’t get there. She writes:

Had some trouble this morning. TSA held me for about 25 minutes in Dallas. My studio lights that I am traveling with apparently look like “textbook” bombs. A TSA woman even told me she was scared because they looked like the bombs in the training videos. That just made me super paranoid through customs here in Honduras. When I tried to explain to the non-English-speaking security man that they were not dangerous, he just looked confused.

3 comments

  1. Same thing happened to us in China and Mexico last year traveling with HD production gear. It’s scary to be detained by the Chinese military…

    @ 9:47 am on February 12, 2008
  2. Try flying in and out of Colombia with a baggy of Cremora. (File THAT one under ‘what the hell was he thinking’.) At least that strip search was in a moderate climate.

    @ 9:58 am on February 12, 2008
  3. Um, that’s what you get for using Cremora.

    @ 10:31 am on February 12, 2008