Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Rob, Rather difficult to look at. Let's hope generations to come don't have to continue to rely on cheap dirty power sources. Regards, Greg Rob Heyman wrote: > > 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. >> -- >> 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 > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html