Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Week 14 (Julian)
From: "Julian Thomas" <julianthomas@terra.es>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:03:30 +0200
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Hi George,
The thing that troubled me about this is that not only is Kevin (and others)
being killed by their own side - they are being hampered by their own army
in getting treatment - crazy. This is the first time that I've done this
kind of work - I just shot whilst the journo I was with  had a dialogue with
Kevin. There was a moment when Kevin broke down and I put the camera down -
I couldn't make the photo, but it would have 'told' his story very
succinctly. Maybe I'm not cut out to be a PJ!

Julian

Julian
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "George Kenney" <georgekenney@earthlink.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Week 14 (Julian)


> Nice photo.
>
> The last thing I wrote on the Balkans, about two years ago now,
> was a review of Chomsky's book on the West's Balkan policy, for
> The Nation magazine (you can still, I believe, find that review on
> their web site). In short, I concluded that the problem is that policy
> makers were evil. It's not a question of good people having honest
> differences of view about what's best for the American national
> interest. It's just about evil people doing evil things. After having
> written that -- and I still believe it -- it's hard to think what else to
say
> that serves any useful purpose.
>
> G.
>
>
> On 12 Apr 2001, at 10:45, Julian Thomas wrote:
>
> > Week 14 is up at http://www.zing.com/album/?id=4293130051 .
> > A bit of a story to this one. Kevin is suffering from depleted uranium
> > poisoning. He picked it up in Bosnia after volunteering 'to help his
> > country'. I've seen a letter from the MOD saying that they have no
> > record of him being there. He is 41. His military medical records,
> > along with scores of others from the Gulf and Bosnia, have been
> > 'lost'. As his illness progresses his mental facilities decline.
> >
> > Anyway, M4-2 (the M6 vf was flaring!), 50 summilux.
> >
> > Julian
> > -----------------------------------
> > Julian Thomas
> > Bruc 168-6-1
> > 08037 Barcelona
> >
> > tfno 679676321
> >
> > weekly photos at http://www.zing.com/album/?id=4293130051
> >
>
>
>

In reply to: Message from "George Kenney" <georgekenney@earthlink.net> (Re: [Leica] Week 14 (Julian))