Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>> 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 oh, the humanity...they are beautiful Brian, Steve >> 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/ >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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