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Subject: Re: [Leica] Immigration Amnesty Program Essay....MIKE...
From: "James A. Gatlin" <jagatlin@attbi.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 18:17:07 -0700
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Greetings Mike:

Thanks for the kind remarks about my Amnesty essay.

To explain a little about the time line.....
I shot the photos on May 4th, 1988. At that time, I was assigned to cover
the story for a newspaper I worked for. The photo editors had sat aside some
space for the story, (since the end of the program was nearing the deadline
for the paper). Unfortunately, that very same night, there was a large high
rise office building fire in downtown Los Angeles, (The First Inter State
Bank Building as I recall). The Amnesty story and photos were pushed off the
paper by the massive fire. Ironically, after I left the INS office headed
back to the paper's lab to process the Amnesty photos, I was rerouted
instead to shoot some fast shots of the spectacular fire, which ran the
following day.

The amnesty story was relagated to a small 3 or 4 inch news column in the
paper, without any photos. So the photos went into my "would have been",
"could have been" box, and life went on to the next story, and then the
next. Soon, the amnesty photos, and my notes were forgotten.

I stumbled across the negs a few days ago while scanning some old stuff for
archival purposes. I rememberd how much I enjoyed the shoot, and thought
about what a good visual story it could have been.... so... I rumanged
around, and found my notes, and decided to create the story now. Originally,
a reporter covered the story with me, as I did the photos, and I suspect the
finished piece would have been much better with a writer... but I did the
best I could do with my old notes, and my own limited ability to write.

So, the answer to your question is.. the photos were shot in 1988, and the
text was written a couple of days ago!  :-)

Thanks again for looking.

Jim G.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Immigration Amnesty Program Essay....


> Hi James,
>
> Very nice work.  Good story, nicely composed pictures and great faces.
>
> You mentioned that this amnesty program ended in 1988.  Does that mean
> that this essay is one from the archives or is there something I missed.
>
> Mike D


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