Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Kyle, Good project. What makes it so chilling and effective are the plain nature of most of the scenes coupled with your matter-of-fact descriptions of the murders that took place there. Chilling and strangely captivating. Nathan Kyle Cassidy wrote: > For a long time I've been interested in the thought that events leave > something behind on a place -- Gettysburg, Agincourt, etc. Many people > report feeling something inexpressable when in the places where events > happened. It spawns tourism, and is the stuff which causes monuments to > be made. > > This got me to thinking about the places in my home town where people > had been murdered. Philadelphia has suffered a rising murder rate in the > past years, passing the 400 mark in 2004 and not slowing down. But very > often these murders get nothing more than a line in an "end of year > roundup". And after two years have gone by, I wonder if any of the > people living on a block remember a killling that happened on the > corner. > > Anyway -- my new photo project -- for your perusal. > > http://www.kylecassidy.com/temp/memory/index.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands *Opportunistic Image Acquisition* General photography: http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com http://www.greatpix.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS!