[Leica] They That Are Left

[mark at whitedogs.co.uk (Mark Pope)]

Brian,

this is the first time that I have seen this and I take my hat off to 
you for taking on this project.
The portraits are exceptional - many of the subjects have a haunted look 
in their eyes, which given what they may have been through is not 
surprising.  My father in law was in Burma and he *never* spoke about 
his experiences, other than to talk about the fights he got into with 
his comrades!

It reminded me of the huge debt of gratitude that we owe to these men 
and women.

With respect to the colour pictures on the blog, my personal view is 
that the B&W pictures work better.

Thanks for posting this slide show and good luck with the book project.

Best wishes

Mark



Mark Pope,
Swindon, Wilts
UK

Homepage               http://www.monomagic.co.uk
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Picture a week (2010)  http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2010
Picture a week (2009)  http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2009
                (2008) 
http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2008


briandavidstevens at talk21.com wrote:
> Hi LUGers
> 
> As some of you may remember for the past 7 years on remembrance day I have 
> been shooting portraits of veterans, the portraits are all shot in the 
> same style, crop etc, I am aiming to keep shooting it for at least another 
> 3 years. The project is based around the concept of The Unknown Soldier
> 
> 
> This is the intro from the book proposal
> 
> "...They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.
> Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
> At the going down of the sun and in the morning
> We will remember them..."
> 
> from Laurence Binyon's 'The Fallen' (first published in The Times, 21st 
> September 1914)
> 
> "They that are left..." : 'Remembrance' portraits.
> 
> Each year they are older, and as they do indeed grow old, as age does 
> weary them and as the years do now condemn them more to what they still 
> remember than to our truly remembering what they fought for (which is very 
> simple : us), 
> they thus become unknown. 
> These faces then are as of unknown soldiers 
> : no cap badges, no ribbons of spooling medals, no insignia for military 
> rank. Faces, only. Each deep-etched with who they are and what they did, 
> that we might look, and think -- and thank them.
> there's a sample of the work here
> http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/slideshow/9423
> in a slideshow format
> 
> I've recently processed some of these in colour which may lead to an 
> offshoot project
> 
> http://driftingcamera.blogspot.com/2010/03/colour_31.html
> 
> do they work as well as the black and whites?
> 
> Comments and opinions welcomed!
> thanks for your time!
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> Brian David Stevens
>  http://driftingcamera.blogspot.com/
> 
> 
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