Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Some years back I worked for a major international oil and gas company with operations in the Soviet Union, then Russia. Hi Ted, At that time the Soviet practice was to continue to gather food crops from well within the fallout zone area and send the foodstuffs to different areas within the country on a sort of rotating basis. Truly a modern version of Russian Roulette. BTW, a significant number of employees and ex-employees posted to Russia have come down since with some horrific medical problems. High cancer rates and slow deaths. Its too bad the genie got out the bottle in 1945. Regards, Greg Ted Grant wrote: >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 > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html