[Leica] Another 50 9th Ward Images

[jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)]

I could call the entire collection "The Lower 9th Ward Six Months After
Katrina". Or I could call it ""The Lower 9th Ward For All Of The Six Months
After Katrina" since time seemed to stand still for six months.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Daniel
Ridings
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 1:42 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Another 50 9th Ward Images


Jeffery,

That's a lot of photographs ... and I looked at every single one of them,
and will do so again.

One suggestion. By your correspondence on the list, we know that these have
been taken a long time after the event. That time element is part of the
message in these pictures. They tell a different story if they were taken a
week after the hurricane or months after.

I kept trying to think ... how can that time element be worked in? In a
collection, by way of introduction, of course, but this is the internet.
Someone is very liable to fall into them, in the middle, out of context.

Perhaps something could be added to each of your titles:

title-x-months-later

Anyway, you are doing something good Jeffery. Thank-you.

Daniel


On 3/12/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
> I'm done shooting in the Lower Ninth Ward. And all of the publicity in 
> the past few weeks has created some positive results. They are now 
> bulldozing some houses and trying to find the hundreds of lower 9th 
> ward residents who are still unaccounted for. It is likely that most 
> or all of them are in attics and under debris. Corpses in the Lakeview 
> area are being found in bathtubs covered with mattresses (something 
> people are told to do in case of severe hurricanes and tornadoes). The 
> number of people unaccounted for Louisiana and Mississippi is in the 
> thousands. When Feli and I walked through the deserted neighborhood, 
> Feli could detect the smell of corpses in several places. My nose is 
> 20 years older and not as sensitive.
>
> This will take you to image 61. I'm up to 110 so far.
>
> http://www.400tx.com/9th-61.html
>
> Feedback of all kinds is welcomed. After about 20 rolls of film down 
> there, I feel like I've learned a lot but still have a lot to learn. 
> Most of these latter shots were taken with a 50/2.8 Elmar (most recent 
> version).
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
>
>
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