Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Making a difference
From: lea <lea@whinydogpress.com>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 10:47:06 -0500
References: <fc.000f7210000098e73b9aca009fc9a697.98e8@mailg.pribilofs.k12.ak.us>

Could someone resend the link to these images?

Thanks...
Lea

Norman Milks wrote:

> David Morton wrote, in part:
>
> <snip>
> These ten photographs are not great art, they're not even great
> photography.
> Yet in their stark, simple awfulness they tell a story so tragic and heart
> rending that I found it hard to keep clicking the next button. Well not
> quite tell a story; they show the outward signs of a nightmare life so
> terrifying that it's hard for most people to even *imagine* the details. We
> see just the surface, nothing more, but the surface is enough to show us
> the
> unspeakable hell that must have been this person's life.
> <snip>
>
> -----------------------------------
> Hello David,
>
> I teach grades 5-12 to 19 students on a small island (big rock) in the
> middle of the Bering Sea.  I showed these 10 photos to my kids today.
> What a powerful story; they've never seen anything like it.  We often TALK
> about drugs in our class.  But again, the old saw, "A picture is worth a
> thousand words"...  Thanks.
>
> norm
> St. George Island, Alaska

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Lea Murphy
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