Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Apr 9, 2011, at 8:04 PM, Philip Forrest wrote: > Over the past nine weeks I have been the director of a project in which > my photo capstone class at Temple University took a look at tobacco > smokers here in Philadelphia, Pa. We got the idea in January after an > article quoted the CDC that Philly was the number 1 large city in the > nation with almost 24% of the population active tobacco smokers. > > We went into this project as objective as possible wanting no bias for > or against smoking. how can you be "objective", yet have no "bias" on smoking given the overwhelming existing data which shows huge adverse health effects from lung cancer and a dozen other diseases? we know what we know so, just wondering ... Steve > Each classmate would ask their randomly selected > (smokers on the street) subject: First name; Age they started smoking; > Why they started smoking; How long they have been a smoker. > > Yesterday, Friday the 8th of April, everything came together in a large > multimedia presentation. We have 960 portraits hanging from a frame in > the Annenberg Hall Atrium at TU. The other 40 are placed up in the > space on walls and the legs of the frame. > > The whole project consists of a website, printed book, online book, > several short clips online and the hung gallery presentation. > > I'm so glad it's over. I spent far more hours in our lab this last two > weeks than I spent outside of it. Worked a 30 hour day, a few 14 hour > days, lots of 12 hour days, on top of my regular class schedule and a > case of bronchitis that's going around campus. Now that it's done, I > can finally sleep. > > http://www.1000phillysmokers.com/main/ > > If you're in the Philly area, the location of the gallery presentation > is at Temple's School of Communication and Theater, Annenberg Hall on > 13th and Norris Streets. The exhibit will be up for 1 week, coming down > Sunday the 17th of April. It will be up at the end of April on the 29th > and the weekend following as well as the week of graduation in early > May. Please stop by if you're in the area and have a look around! The > exhibit is open to the public but you will have to sign in at the > Annenberg Hall security desk or be escorted by a Temple student. > > Your comments and critiques are greatly appreciated! > > Regards to all, > Phil Forrest > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information