[Leica] Another 18 photos from the Lower 9th Ward

[jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)]

New Orleans is different from any other place I've been. When there is a
minor accident on the freeway, we have to leave the cars where they are,
making thousands of people sit and wait for the police to arrive (if they
can get there through the gridlock). We are also known as "The City That
Care Forgot", and this situation shows how true that is. The last time I was
out there shooting, I saw (1) people taking pictures, (2) a tour bus, and
(3) a guy stealing copper wire. Water still flows out from broken water
pipes under flattened houses. 

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




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[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Ted
Grant
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 8:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [Leica] Another 18 photos from the Lower 9th Ward


Jeffery Smith showed:
>>Subject: [Leica] Another 18 photos from the Lower 9th Ward
> Photos 22 through 40 begin here.<<<<<<<<

Hi Jeffery,
I sat here and went through them 3 or 4 times, each I became sicker, it was 
the same old question and once again as a non-USA person I should keep my 
mouth shut, but damn it after all this time and as I said before, it looks 
like it happened a few days ago.  Where are all the people who lived here 
waiting for it to be cleaned up?

How about a deal where trailer or tent housing is made available as close by

as possible, then everyone physically able, men, women and all elderly 
wishing to do something helpful are bussed in, get paid and fed doing 
everything that can be done manually one street at a time.

I realize this is easier said sitting here than to do. However, in poor 
countries this is the way it's done, the folks hurt the most are usually the

first in with the hands and shovels cleaning it up no matter how vast it is.

If this situation occurred in LA, New York, Boston or any other large 
American ocean side location the military and money by the thousands and 
billions of dollars would've been available in the blink of an eye!

Or I suppose a location of major political importance it would've been 
cleaned-up in no time.

Of course this is now old news these days for any news network and as much 
American news as we receive in Canada, I haven't seen any major TV or 
newspaper stories of clean-up. Is there any? And if there are, as a 
comparison maybe some pictures might be in order illustrating that cleaning 
is going on despite the still desolate areas we're seeing. A sort of 
comparison date to date.

But you have such a challenge and are doing such a solid shoot I can't do 
anymore than wish you the strength and fortitude to stay with it as long as 
you can.

Know this... some day all your efforts will pay off monetarily and in 
recognition for your fine documentary work.

ted 


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