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Subject: Re: [Leica] Paul Fusco Leica Ace
From: "Greg J. Lorenzo" <gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca>
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 09:23:56 -0700
References: <f2.16a7b244.299aa5fe@aol.com> <3C6E602F.3030306@bigpond.net.au>

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.
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In reply to: Message from ARTHURWG@aol.com (Re: [Leica] Paul Fusco Leica Ace)
Message from Rob Heyman <rheyman@bigpond.net.au> (Re: [Leica] Paul Fusco Leica Ace)