Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Paul Fusco Leica Ace
From: Rob Heyman <rheyman@bigpond.net.au>
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 23:35:43 +1000
References: <f2.16a7b244.299aa5fe@aol.com>

Some of the photos mentioned are at this site :

http://www.magnumphotos.com/features.html

Rob


ARTHURWG@aol.com wrote:

>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.
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