Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> 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