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Subject: [Leica] So I finally cleaned my closet -
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Sat Dec 30 12:27:37 2006

Indeed it is - sad and cruel. US and Soviets were both hot for Somalia for
it's geographic location. But the end of the Cold War meant the end of any
interest in the former Italian colony.


On 12/29/06 11:52 PM, "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote:

> B. D. Colen offered:
> Subject: [Leica] So I finally cleaned my closet -
> 
> 
>> And lo and behold, along with all the Nikon and Leica boxes I knew I
>> needed
>> to get rid of, I found more than a dozen prints of photos I took in
>> Somalia
>> and had printed in Nairobi. All shot  either Kodak or Fuji 400 and 800
>> color
>> neg - scanned on an Epson flatbed -
>>> www.bdcolenphoto.com - go to Photojournalism - Somalia 1993<<<
> 
> Hi B.D.,
> Too bad the negs were lost, a heart breaking thing for anyone. But a near
> killer when one works at it for a living and on assignment! :-(
> 
> I imagine you've put what you did find in a safe place so at least they 
> will
> be part of your career legacy.  Besides not everyday does one work on a
> story such as we see in your pictures.
> 
> Sorry situation when you were there and no better today. Certainly as we
> hear the past few days "war" has started all over again.:-(
> 
> Sad state of the world when modern countries see no dollar in their pocket
> profits and just leave situations like this to sort themselves out
> regardless of the human cruelty.
> 
> ted 
> 
> 
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