[Leica] ...beginning to "recover" and FOM2

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

On Jun 24, 2005, at 1:51 AM, Alastair Firkin wrote:

> G'day all,
>
> Helen and I have been home long enough for most people to catch up,  
> but we are almost there. So this post has a number of roles:
>
> 1. It is with great sadness that I have to report that the FOM2  
> project has lost another of its finest photographers. On the 3rd of  
> May, Dieter W. Wehde died after a long fight with lung cancer.  
> Dieter was one lugger/fom2 friend on whom I had learnt to rely, and  
> when I heard about his illness, I was determined to go to Hamburg  
> to meet him. Of course I arrived in Hamburg 2 weeks too late. I  
> heard about his death as we left Prague, and it put a gloom on some  
> of our trip.
>
> 2. I have to admit to NOT being a great salesman or success in  
> finding outlets for FOM2. We visited the Leica Gallery in Prague  
> and saw a wonderful Salgado exhibition (workers). The gallery is  
> housed on a train, and it chugged off 6 hours later. Ringing the  
> gallery owner was inhibited by "language". So it was off to Poland  
> and then Germany. We rang Leica, who could not find a time for the  
> tour. With this, a visit to Solms seemed a bit pointless, so we  
> decided the projects fate would have to rest on other formats.


FOM2... all seems a bit iffy if we can't get Leica on board to  
support a world wide effort to take fine photos using Leica cameras  
and lenses...


it's all about light and  "they have their heads where the sun don't  
shine".


too sad,

Steve



> It is clear the galleries are small in general.
>
> 3. We were welcomed to Poland and guided onto buses trains etc by  
> Stanislaw. I cannot thank him enough for his help. We had a  
> wonderful time in Krakow: a city on the must visit list. LUG  
> contacts do make travel fun ;-)
>
> I have now processed the 20 rolls of Rollei R3 and 5 rolls of other  
> "assorted" b/w films, and will begin printing this weekend.
>
> So little time so much to do: but its good to be back.
>
> Hope you have all been busy on FOM2 ;-)
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
> Alastair
>
>
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