[Leica] My photos made the local TV news

[Christopher Crawford]

I'll do the same thing I do with all of my work: Sell prints if anyone wants them. I can't give my work away during my lifetime; I need to make a living. This project has been expensive. I'm not sure how much I have spent just for the hospital project, but my Polaroid work as a whole has cost me nearly $4000 so far. Most of that has come from donations I've received, but some has come from print sales. Even if all the film had been paid for by patrons, I'd still need to sell prints so I can pay my other bills and expenses in life. I live with my son, who has told me that I'll never have to work for a living again; but I try to pay for my photography materials and equipment and costs like my adobe subscription myself. I don't want to be a burden. I have a lot of serious health problems, which is why I live with him.

When I die, I will likely give my work to some place like the Indiana State Museum. Hopefully that won't be any time soon, but given the poor state of my health, there's no guarantees.

-- 
Chris Crawford
Fine Art Photography
Fort Wayne, Indiana

260-437-8990

https://chriscrawfordphoto.com  My portfolio
 
https://sx70project.com The Polaroid SX-70 Project

https://crawfordphotoschool.com Learn From Me

On 10/31/22, 11:27 AM, "LUG on behalf of Aram Langhans via LUG" <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

    Very nice coverage by the news media.  And a great collection of 
    photos.  Do you have any plans for them after?  Submitting them to a 
    historical museum?
    
    And nice to put a face to the name.
    
    Aram
    
    On 10/27/2022 6:51:49, Christopher Crawford wrote:
    > Last Friday, one of Fort Wayne's TV stations did a story about my project documenting the demolition of Saint Joseph Hospital in downtown Fort Wayne using my Polaroid SX-70 camera.
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    > You can see the video on YouTube here:
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    > https://youtu.be/smJvKfK-LxM
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    > and the 23 photos I have done so far are on my website here:
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    > https://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-results.php?category=130&secondary=268
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    -- 
    Aram Langhans
    (Semi) Retired Science Teacher
    & Unemployed photographer
      
    “The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself would ever have dared dream.”
        James D. Watson
    
    
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