Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I went to Paul Fusco's lecture at ICP last week and saw the most disturbing >photos I've ever encountered. Paul, as most will know, is a former Look >photographer, now a member of Magnum. He showed slides going as far back as >Woodstock, as well as snaps from Gaza and his recent book, RFK Funeral Train. >But his latest work goes beyond anything I've ever seen: the effects of >radiation fallout from Chernoblyl on Belorus. > It seems that the Soviets seeded the clouds that brought all the Chernobyl >fallout down on Belorus in the form of black rain. As a result, the country >has 1,500 times more birth defects and cancers than anywhere else. The photos >showed small children with inoperable tumors the size of basketballs, people >born without lymphatic systems, kids with their brains in a sack outside >their heads, and all manner of mental retardation etc. > All the kids are institutionalized, and while they are not mistreated >their is no money to do much besides keep them alive. Belorus, byt he way, >will remain radioactive for 25,000 years. In Egypt, as we walked by the pyramids, someone said: "I wonder what we will leave the world 3000 years from now?" and the reply was "Nuclear waste" Cheers - -- Alastair Firkin http://www.afirkin.com http://www.familyofman2.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html