Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted Grant wrote: SNIP > > However, I guess there are times when "majority rules or over rules on > topics". By the same token the disappearing Leica folks is quite amazing, > like where have all the regular Leica storied people gone? > > Any good Leica moments anyone? > ted > > Ted Grant Actually, yes, I had a good Leica moment or two lately. I had the pleasure of working with my new 75 Summilux on a series of photos I was doing for a client that provides services to people who had been institutionalized in state mental hospitals. These people, some of whom had been in hospitals for upwards of 30 years are now living in group homes and skilled care facilities (actually cheaper than in state hospitals). They are living dignified lives. Some, who had never been thought to have enough wherewithal or intelligence to even speak have learned words and sentences. Some who had never even felt rain or snow will now have that experience. Back on topic I worked black & white and available light. I just laid back and let the camera do the work. I'm pleased with my results. My client is ecstatic. As an aside, there is another photographer who is also doing work for this project (an annual report) and from what I'm told by the communications director, this other photog's approach of using intrusive, heavily-strobed lighting and medium format has been alienating to everybody and has limited any rapport or interaction with subjects who are already difficult to work with. This is an account that has developed as a result of some pro-bono community service work I did photographing an autistic 10 year-old boy with Down's Syndrome last fall and winter. Also all Leica and T-Max 3200 rated at 1600. These photos, along with work by other photographers who donated their services (thought I'd get this nasty thread going again :-)) are part of a yearlong exhibit that is traveling to corporate sponsors in our region and illustrating this organization's 25-year involvement with the mentally handicapped and retarded. - -- Carl Socolow http://members.tripod.com/SocPhoto/