Re: [Leica] Paul Fusco Leica Ace

[Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>]

Re: [Leica] Paul Fusco Leica Ace
> >All the kids are institutionalized, and while they are not mistreated
their is no money to do much besides keep them alive.  Belorus, by he way,
will remain radioactive for 25,000 years.<<<<

Alastair Firkin wrote:
>>> 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"<<<<

Many people of the world have no idea of the nuclear pollution created by
the Chernobyl disaster, certainly myself when I went to Russia 1992 to shoot
a photo essay on Chernobyl children. And conscripts involved in the
clean-up.

Paul's pictures are what one might call rather heart wrenching vividness of
what happens to humans caught in nuclear waste fallout. If one hasn't seen
his photographs on this subject may I suggest you seek out any publications
with it as you'll be shocked beyond belief.

During my time there, I kept getting into emotional crying fits with all
these kids I was photographing, as in their eyes and appearance I kept
reading the faces of my ten grandchildren back in Canada. Praying that it
never happens again, by accident nor war.

Trust me, the next time you hear some bloody fool politician go on about
missiles and nuclear weapons like they are talking about fire crackers,
you'll know immediately this person is bull shitting you and they have never
seen Paul's or my pictures! Nor have they stood face to face, so's to speak,
with these "things" that are supposed to be human beings! :-( :-(

>>>Belorus, by he way, will remain radioactive for 25,000 years.<<<<

This gentlemen is no exaggeration! :-(

Sorry this topic touches a very sore spot with me. And to keep it on
topic....... yep I shot all mine with Leica M6 and R7's, T-Max 400.
ted

Ted Grant Photography Limited
www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant


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