Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/24

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Subject: [Leica] Back and beginning to "recover"
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Fri Jun 24 15:20:58 2005
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Alastair Firkin wrote:

> G'day all,
> 
> Helen and I have been home long enough for most people to catch up, but 
> we are almost there. So this post has a number of roles:
> 
> 1. It is with great sadness that I have to report that the FOM2 project 
> has lost another of its finest photographers. On the 3rd of May, Dieter 
> W. Wehde died after a long fight with lung cancer. Dieter was one 
> lugger/fom2 friend on whom I had learnt to rely, and when I heard about 
> his illness, I was determined to go to Hamburg to meet him. Of course I 
> arrived in Hamburg 2 weeks too late. I heard about his death as we left 
> Prague, and it put a gloom on some of our trip.
> 
> 2. I have to admit to NOT being a great salesman or success in finding 
> outlets for FOM2. We visited the Leica Gallery in Prague and saw a 
> wonderful Salgado exhibition (workers). The gallery is housed on a 
> train, and it chugged off 6 hours later. Ringing the gallery owner was 
> inhibited by "language". So it was off to Poland and then Germany. We 
> rang Leica, who could not find a time for the tour. With this, a visit 
> to Solms seemed a bit pointless, so we decided the projects fate would 
> have to rest on other formats. It is clear the galleries are small in 
> general.
> 
> 3. We were welcomed to Poland and guided onto buses trains etc by 
> Stanislaw. I cannot thank him enough for his help. We had a wonderful 
> time in Krakow: a city on the must visit list. LUG contacts do make 
> travel fun ;-)
> 
> I have now processed the 20 rolls of Rollei R3 and 5 rolls of other 
> "assorted" b/w films, and will begin printing this weekend.
> 
> So little time so much to do: but its good to be back.
> 
> Hope you have all been busy on FOM2 ;-)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> 
> Alastair
> 
> 
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> 
Al,

Try The Photographer's Gallery in London.

Peter


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