Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]-----Original Message----- >From: PHC <lists@paulhardycarter.com> >Excellent work Feli. > >The surprise for me was that the devastated areas seem utterly devoid >of life - no teams of contractors demolishing and rebuilding. Even >bodies left to rot in destroyed houses. This seems incredible in the >developed world. Exactly. I was amazed by the lack of activity. Many of the areas like the lower 9th and St Bernard are ghost towns. Sometimes Jeff and I would wander around for hours and only encounter one or two people. It reminded me of pictures I've seen of Chenobyl. The water retreated 2-3 months ago and we were encountering entire areas with virgin mud, showing no traces of tire tracks or foot prints. You would think that the place would be swarming with clean up crews, contracators, the governent etc but it isn't. That was the big challenge in shooting this. How do you put a human face on a disaster like this, when there are no people to shoot? You can only photograph so much rubble. Obviously there were plenty of people in the French and business quarter, but the rest is pretty empty. The wealthier areas are seeing some reconstruction activity, but I attribute that to the better educated and wealther population taking the initiative in rebuilding their homes. > >I'm looking at commongroundrelief.org right now, which is inspiring, >but I can't get the other site "can-do.org" to work. Do I have the >wrong address? Hmm, not sure. I would have to dig through my notes at home and see if can-do.org has a different site/email address. thanks, feli --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feli di Giorgio feli2@earthlink.net www.elanphotos.com