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Subject: Re: [Leica] on Topic-Sept 11 documentary
From: "Greg J. Lorenzo" <gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca>
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 15:28:39 -0700
References: <B8AFDC2A.1B12%lugstuff@charlesharris.com>

Hi Charles,

Do you know at what time the show will be aired or the name of the program?

Regards,

Greg

charles harris wrote:

>Last week I was assigned a very cool project. In the US this Sunday on CBS
>is a documentary on the Sept 11 events. The sponsor (through their ad
>agency) commissioned about 80 photographers around the country to go out and
>shoot public safety people, police officers, rescue teams, firefighters, and
>the like. They wanted environmental portraits of the everyday guys. Instead
>of showing commercials during the programming, these portraits will be
>shown. I expect there will be some outstanding photos here.
>
>I was assigned two shots in South Carolina; Charleston and rural. I ended up
>shooting about a half dozen. If everybody did shoot multiples like I did,
>the edit should prove very difficult. Having said that, even though I was
>commissioned for two, there is no guarantee of airplay at all. Regardless,
>it should be an impressive bunch of shots.
>
>The photographers were given great latitude on this assignment. Aside from a
>nearly unreasonable deadline, the only restrictions besides subject matter
>were that it crop to horizontal, portray the subjects in non-civilian
>attire, not be an action shot, and be serious in tone. We were assigned a
>specific geographic region but were tasked to source the subjects on our
>own, meaning I chose who and where I specifically shot.
>
>It will be interesting to compare what is ultimately selected given that we
>all were working with the same guidelines. Anybody else on this list
>involved in this project?
>
>I shot these over the course of 1 1/2 days in Charleston and (the area of)
>Aiken SC. All with the Hasselblad.
>
>The posted images here are outtakes. I have not even seen most of the film I
>shot. I had to FedEx it back to my studio for processing and it was sent out
>that very day. I did a couple of other shots not shown here because, for one
>reason or the other, the outtakes were unsuitable for posting. I usually
>make a lot of subtle compositional changes on the fly and work with posing
>as I go along, so these shots may not be entirely representational of the
>whole lot. One of these shots will not crop well as a horizontal, but I shot
>it anyway because I liked it.
>
>I've not yet linked these to my paw site, check back for that.
>
>check out and follow the arrows to the right....
>
>http://www.charlesharris.com/hero/vfd.html
>
>as always lots of leica shots can be found at
>http://www.charlesharris.com
>
>Any and all comments or questions will be respectfully noted. I urge
>everybody to watch this program not just for the photos, but for the
>content.
>
>I think I'll post this letter twice under two headings for those who
>automatically trash PAW topics. Sorry for the redundancy.
>
>charles
>
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Replies: Reply from "Greg J. Lorenzo" <gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca> (Re: [Leica] on Topic-Sept 11 documentary)
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