[Leica] What can the LUG do for Haiti?

[pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)]

Kyle,

extremely good idea, but...

I can't help thinking that the best thing that the LUG could do would be for 
one
of us to get out there and take the compelling images (KC?). It's like a war
zone. It needs those skills.

For the rest of us, we need to put pressure on our govts to get the stuff off
the airport and out to the people who need it ever so desperately.

Peter

Kyle Cassidy wrote:
> I've been thinking - one of the reasons that some tragedies are noticed 
> and others slip past is compelling images. Kevin Carter's photo of the 
> Vulture stands out in my mind. I've been moved and distressed and 
> emotionally pilloried by some of the photos coming from Haiti and was 
> thinking that an appropriate way for this group to help out might be by 
> finding a photography school somewhere in the country, donating some 
> collected funds or equipment and helping the people who will be 
> documenting the rebuilding of that place in the years to come.
> 
> Something like Jeff Mills' Young Haitian Documentary Photographers Group:
> 
> http://www.rocksandtrees.ca/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=109
> 
> What say you?
> 
> Kyle
> 
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