[Leica] Another 50 9th Ward Images

[dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)]

Jeffery,

That's a lot of photographs ... and I looked at every single one of
them, and will do so again.

One suggestion. By your correspondence on the list, we know that these
have been taken a long time after the event. That time element is part
of the message in these pictures. They tell a different story if they
were taken a week after the hurricane or months after.

I kept trying to think ... how can that time element be worked in? In
a collection, by way of introduction, of course, but this is the
internet. Someone is very liable to fall into them, in the middle, out
of context.

Perhaps something could be added to each of your titles:

title-x-months-later

Anyway, you are doing something good Jeffery. Thank-you.

Daniel


On 3/12/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
> I'm done shooting in the Lower Ninth Ward. And all of the publicity in the
> past few weeks has created some positive results. They are now bulldozing
> some houses and trying to find the hundreds of lower 9th ward residents who
> are still unaccounted for. It is likely that most or all of them are in
> attics and under debris. Corpses in the Lakeview area are being found in
> bathtubs covered with mattresses (something people are told to do in case 
> of
> severe hurricanes and tornadoes). The number of people unaccounted for
> Louisiana and Mississippi is in the thousands. When Feli and I walked
> through the deserted neighborhood, Feli could detect the smell of corpses 
> in
> several places. My nose is 20 years older and not as sensitive.
>
> This will take you to image 61. I'm up to 110 so far.
>
> http://www.400tx.com/9th-61.html
>
> Feedback of all kinds is welcomed. After about 20 rolls of film down there,
> I feel like I've learned a lot but still have a lot to learn. Most of these
> latter shots were taken with a 50/2.8 Elmar (most recent version).
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
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