Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They will indeed end up portraying a pleasant - and extremely false - normality. Some of the folks I shot have numerous seizures despite their medication - which is why I thought it would make sense to include the downside as well as the up. (Although no one has had a seizure when I've been around) The dog had some sort of 'working dog' statement on the harness, with an add for the drug company - as they provide a ton of funding for the folks who breed, train, and provide the dogs - and the dog providers. Apparently if you get one of these epilepsy dogs you get dog food for the life of the dog and free vet care. On 6/27/06 12:56 PM, "bill harting" <vintagebill@verizon.net> wrote: > A seizeure is not attractive, it is frightening and confusing to those who > have not witnessed it, but it is just an event to those who live with those > subject to seizures. To me, photographing a seizure could have an important > educational impact. Incidentally, the guide dog in the Georgia pictures is > wearing a harness with wording on it. Is that explanatory or instructional? > > I wonder if your project leaders will end up portraying a pleasant > normality > that omits any suggestion that this serenety may abruptly be interrupted in > a public place. This project could be a step toward viewers knowing how to > react -- or not react -- in such a situation. > > bill > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 11:53 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] So this weekend it was Jersey City... > > >> Thanks, Richard - There will be a bio with each person. But the very idea >> of >> the project, and the photos, is to show the people functioning normally. >> When I suggested early on that the project would in fact benefit from one >> of >> the seven patients having a seizure when I happened to be there - in order >> to show them before -during -and after - the reaction was, uh, negative. >> :-) >> >> >> On 6/27/06 11:38 AM, "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote: >> >>> B.D. - Always enjoy looking at your pictures and this series is no >>> exception. These must be meant to supplement text though, since >>> there is no evidence of illness in the photos - just a pretty girl >>> baking a cake and painting. That said, #13 does imply something of >>> her condition and is very moving in the context of what we know about >>> her. >>> >>> Hope her future is brighter than the bare facts we have would indicate. >>> >>> >>>> ...the patient this past weekend is a young Hispanic woman with epilepsy >>>> caused by a malignant brain tumor. She was a dancer, but now spends her >>>> time >>>> baking and decorating cakes to order and painting. She does both in a >>>> basement studio in her row house home - hideous mixed lighting and damn >>>> little of it other than by the couple of windows. >>>> >>>> All shot with a single on-camera flash...or available light.... >>>> >>>> http://www.bdcolenphoto.com - Editorial and Corporate - Keppra Jersey >>>> City >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information