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Subject: Re: [Leica] Paul Fusco Leica Ace
From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 09:04:14 +1100
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>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
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Alastair Firkin

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