A successful camera operator is on the brink of a career meltdown following allegations that he spends more time filming women during live events than the actual event itself.
Seymour Parrish has been operating cameras at live events for over a decade, covering many music festivals and major sports tournaments. But in the past few months he has been accused by television viewers as “perverted” due to his apparent fixation with filming women – cutting to upper body shots and close ups of them during “inappropriate times”.
Television viewers, who attempted to watch Disclosure’s live set at Bestival, have complained that they saw too many “scantily clad girls on people’s shoulders” and “hardly any footage of the two Disclosure brothers performing on stage.”
German football supporters were “outraged” in the summer after missing six of the seven goals scored against World Cup hosts Brazil when the two sides met in the tournament because the live broadcaster’s feed was busy zooming in on five Brazilian women dancing and shaking pompoms for the big screen.
“We missed most of one of the greatest games in German football history,” said one fan. “The girls on TV did not even know what was going on in the game, they were too busy competing for the attention of the camera and dancing to samba drums.”
One woman has publicly admitted to feeling harassed by Seymour’s camera work and requested that footage of her in the front row of a Craig Charles set be taken down because she feels it to be “an invasion of privacy” adding that it has absolutely nothing to do with her “glazed eyes and stiff jawed appearance at five in the afternoon.”
Parrish has laughed off all accusations, saying: “What I decide to film is exactly what the majority of viewers want to see, not just lonely men sitting on their sofas at home.”
He also added: “I only hope that these silly rumours will soon die down as I look forward to filming my next event, the Miss World 2014 final.”
