Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/28

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Subject: [Leica] the best dressed homeless guy i know ....
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sat Oct 28 07:21:45 2006
References: <85E82150C9268149B89695D00778A6CA016B46@EXCHANGE.asc.local> <26C0CD37-9FA0-482C-BD04-E172A2117937@ncable.net.au>

> On 28/10/2006, at 13:46, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
>
>> Omar is the best dressed homeless guy I know. I've been  
>> photographing him off and on for about two years now. He's very  
>> gregarious and always seems to have something going on, and has a  
>> cult following among college students and local residents. He can  
>> put on a very mean drunk and is one of the very few people I've  
>> ever seen drunk at 6:50 in the morning when I'm on my way into  
>> work, waving the last beer of a six pack and walking a dog that  
>> nobody seems to know the owner of. But now when he sees me he  
>> yells across the street "hey! take a picture! i got a new hat!" --  
>> or something like that. I've probably taken five or six hundred  
>> photos of him. This is last wednesday. "I don't want to die," he  
>> told me, "I love life too much."
>>
>> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/lj/2006/omar/index.html


a beautifully potent series Kyle...very affecting....Steve


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