Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]We all know what the overwhelming evidence says about smoking but we would have had almost no participants had we made this an anti smoking campaign. This is a journalism class, not an advertising or advocacy class. We're not encouraging smoking. We just wanted to see a bit of the 360,000 smokers who live in Philadelphia. Each classmate has their own bias but we made the questions as neutral as we could. Phil Forrest On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 20:24:57 -0700 Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information