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Subject: [Leica] Hospital picture
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sat May 19 19:17:10 2007
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On May 18, 2007, at 9:10 AM, Walt Johnson wrote:

> Steve
>
> These people don't have hospitals. There was a retired dentists  
> providing medical care on a catch as catch can basis but not much  
> more. As far a showing off? I had a camera and this mother saw me  
> shooting. She simply held up one of her children and I made the image.

something in the image quite out of step with what I am familiar  
with... that's for sure.


thanks Walt,

Steve


> Whereas when we get sick we go see the Dr. When they get sick they  
> get better or die. Still, the people have honor and a sense of fair  
> play. Don't ask me how, that's a question for experts.
>
> Walt
>
> Steve Barbour wrote:
>>
>> On May 18, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Walt Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> I'm puzzled, ambiguity?
>>
>>
>> was this taken in a hospital?   This is not a pose that I have  
>> seen very often... to "show off" something negative, is that a  
>> hospital care worker? or a mother ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>  negative
>>> In any case it is from Cite Soleil, in Port au Prince, Haiti. It  
>>> is a location seeped in death and despair. It's been 20 years  
>>> since I've been there but nothing changes. Bloated children with  
>>> rust-colored hair are the rule rather than the exception. Open  
>>> ditches, filled with raw sewage, flow right through the area. It  
>>> is not unusual for small children to fall in and drown in these  
>>> ditches.  I made two trips there in the late 80's  and still  
>>> can't put it out of my mind. Can you imagine? We've spent  
>>> billions destroying Iraq, countless innocent lives have been lost  
>>> and the place must reek of horror. Meanwhile, Haiti, a short hop  
>>> from our coast, continues to wallow in filth, starvation, murder  
>>> and neglect. Were I not an atheist I'd think we'd have to burn in  
>>> hell for letting Haiti exist as it does.
>>>
>>> Now, aren't you sorry you asked? :'(
>>>
>>> Steve Barbour wrote:
>>>>> On May 17, 2007, at 9:28 PM, Walt Johnson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Walt+Johnson/baby_eye.jpg.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> a disconcerting image...ambiguous I think...
>>>>
>>>> where? circumstances please Walt?
>>>>
>>>> thanks,  Steve
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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