Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/12
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I was in Germany when Chernobyl blew up. Two days later we had a big
rainstorm and the sky turned brown. I think it was sand that get's blown
up from the Sahara, but still creepy. You could only buy canned
vegetables and there were restrictions on everything from milk to meat.
It was very strange to walk in to a supermarket that is basicly empty,
because there was a stampede and the whole market was sold out. You
couldn't walk on the lawn and were supposed to stay on the concrete,
which was supposedly not as hot. I was in 7th grade and in my biology
class we went out with a Geiger counter that crackled like crazy.
We took iodine pills and got checkups for radiation exposure. In short
it sucked. We also used to have nuke drills. They would round us up and
we would be marched off to the school's bicycle cellar(!). I was about
12 years old and crammed in the back. I remember looking around at an
old broken desk, a rusted bike and the small cellar window thinking to
myself "Oh, yeah. This is REALLY going to make a difference."
Not fun.
feli
> Ted Grant
> 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
>
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