Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted, I'm going to speak against all these "keep it photography" bits of wisdom because what your books, and I think your passion for this body of work, is beyond simply photography. You don't spend that much time and put that much of yourself into something without it having a deep and abiding meaning to you. So HONOR that meaning, Ted. Make the DVD the way you envision it with a photography narrative and a medical narrative. This will be HARD. When you construct a DVD with multiple sound tracks they run against a common video track. Think of two voices speaking against the same slide show, but the slide show you've always wanted so you can get up close to the details. You can explore alternate points of view...the possibilities are amazing. But Ted I'd urge you take those images that mean so much to you - that reflect decades of insight into both photography and medicine - and connect with the physician who can speak for that other side you photographed. And between you weave that braid of image and narrative. In the doing of that you pass along to whoever sees it a sense of the complex world in which you were so deeply immersed. Because these are the things that count. I say go for it Ted. It's a new medium and you have enough creativity in you to inspire not only the people who will view the DVD but also the people who will help you create it. It's like poetry of word and vision and profession all woven together. It's a wonderful vision. Don't give up on this idea. Make it live. I'll buy one and I'm sure there are some video producers, maybe some young ones in Vancouver who know the technology and would benfit from all the insights into what you want to make. I see some wonderful images, Ted. I hear you telling your story, how you chose them, what they mean to you, why they mean that, and at the same time, another world unfurls in another audio dimension, the details of what the medical men and women saw and experienced. It's so HUMAN. What future physicians and photographers might exist because of this project? What young editor and videographer, what DVD producer might be inspired by the challenge of your idea? Go for it. Make it happen. It's a whole new world out there and it's at least as fun, and demanding, as aerobatics in a P-51. Adam Bridge