Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The new issue of Rolling Stone, with Jar-Jar on the cover, has a spread of Salgado's Leica images from Yugoslavia, part of a major six-year project he has been creating for Rolling Stone regarding "the mass displacement of people by war, economic change, and environmental ruin at the end of the twentieth century". The accompanying text is somewhat chilling, describing the mass illiteracy of the Kosovars and their incredibly high birth rate, Europe's highest for decades. Coincidentally, while perusing my bound 1993 issues of Leica Fotographie International, I found in issue 2/93 a photo essay on refugee camps in Yugoslavia, a mirror of what we see on TV and in magazines and newspapers in 1999. History repeating itself, sure, but what a difference photographs make in forcing us to face the horrors humans inflict upon each other! Terry