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Henk,
I just love your work. You capture a sort of
frank innocence/quietness in the images I have seen you post of late. Thanks for
posting. I am loving the fact that a lot of y'all are putting images on
the web to look at. The conversations are better clarified when we have
images as examples and we get to know each other better when we
see what we each choose to photograph.
OFF TOPIC SO DON'T READ UNLESS YOU WANT
TO:
I just have to share a Thanksgiving story that
makes me so happy, nothing alt. My hubby is in Haiti right now working on
establishing a building for a school/medical clinic/church in this country
village off the northern side. As I had said a while back on the list, I
went down there in June with a group and documented, thinking I would come back
and do a lot of gum work with the images--in other words I went down for "alt"
reasons. Well, the images just did not lend themselves to gum much and that
didn't seem to be the direction to go, so I just ended up making a 200 page
Blurb book with them.
Tom brought a copy of the book with him, and the
entire town of Little Guinea is SOOOO excited to see themselves in those
pages!! These are people with no plumbing, dirt floors, no electricity, no
money, little food, no medical care not even bandaids or aspirin, no access to
education (you have to pay for it), little clothing and shoes, no work, and here
they see themselves in a BOOK! They are so proud and happy that they are
racing around the town showing everyone themselves for hours. I never had
any idea this would be the outcome of all that labor, that I could bring
pleasure to a town with a silly book.
The book has also been instrumental in raising
funds for the project which was not my intention at all.
Do you realize how incredible it is to have a DREAM
in June of this combo medical care/school/church for this little town and
then have it be a reality in 6 months??
BTW he is able to communicate with me by text on
his iPhone...the wonders of technology.
So I am sorry for being SO off topic but I am too
excited when I found this out this morning that my photography has brought
happiness in such a hard knocks place....when photography can be used for
humanitarian purposes it feels--good. Makes me want to quit my job and move
there to work. Well, on second thought, with this economic blitz I will
have to work until I am 70 and THEN go there.
Chris
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Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 9:10
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Subject: tricolor gumprint nr.4
Just by accident i saw a model being photographed in Paris (of all places
...)
cheers,
Henk
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