Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A seizeure is not attractive, it is frightening and confusing to those who have not witnessed it, but it is just an event to those who live with those subject to seizures. To me, photographing a seizure could have an important educational impact. Incidentally, the guide dog in the Georgia pictures is wearing a harness with wording on it. Is that explanatory or instructional? I wonder if your project leaders will end up portraying a pleasant normality that omits any suggestion that this serenety may abruptly be interrupted in a public place. This project could be a step toward viewers knowing how to react -- or not react -- in such a situation. bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 11:53 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] So this weekend it was Jersey City... > Thanks, Richard - There will be a bio with each person. But the very idea > of > the project, and the photos, is to show the people functioning normally. > When I suggested early on that the project would in fact benefit from one > of > the seven patients having a seizure when I happened to be there - in order > to show them before -during -and after - the reaction was, uh, negative. > :-) > > > On 6/27/06 11:38 AM, "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote: > >> B.D. - Always enjoy looking at your pictures and this series is no >> exception. These must be meant to supplement text though, since >> there is no evidence of illness in the photos - just a pretty girl >> baking a cake and painting. That said, #13 does imply something of >> her condition and is very moving in the context of what we know about >> her. >> >> Hope her future is brighter than the bare facts we have would indicate. >> >> >>> ...the patient this past weekend is a young Hispanic woman with epilepsy >>> caused by a malignant brain tumor. She was a dancer, but now spends her >>> time >>> baking and decorating cakes to order and painting. She does both in a >>> basement studio in her row house home - hideous mixed lighting and damn >>> little of it other than by the couple of windows. >>> >>> All shot with a single on-camera flash...or available light.... >>> >>> http://www.bdcolenphoto.com - Editorial and Corporate - Keppra Jersey >>> City >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information