Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The closest I've come to funerals has been covering the civic unrest after a police shooting. There, the faces are either Latino or African-American, and eerily there is no mainstream press. Of course, I'm the only one there more often than not with a camera and press credentials. By now most of the community leadership knows me and that gives me some degree of survivability. But I sure become the brunt of unrelenting verbal barrages because most have so little opportunity to vent. Once I had to illustrate a story on home care. I asked my wife's grandmother, if she would consent to being photographed, being semi comatose, she nodded ever so slightly. She passed away that evening, before the image went to press. It's the last image we have of her, and like some many you, we cherish that photo. Below is an URL of someone that is waiting to be frozen, the pre dead, if you will. It's a single photo from a larger essay, shot on 4x5. http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/00/20/health-wielenga.shtml Best, Slobodan Dimitrov