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    Re: Direct positive Portraits of Marines in Afghanistan

    I really like these. As the wife of a soldier, I'd LOVE to have a shot like this of my husband over there (he's back and says he's done with deploying - we'll see). I love that you take it everywhere and do shots like this. Thanks for sharing them!

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    Re: Direct positive Portraits of Marines in Afghanistan

    Great Pictures absolutely love them.

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    Re: Direct positive Portraits of Marines in Afghanistan

    Very good stuff Kav!

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    Re: Direct positive Portraits of Marines in Afghanistan

    I think these are great, both the look of them and the way they present the marines as people, not symbols. They make it clear just how slick and formulaic most journalism about the military is.

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    Re: Direct positive Portraits of Marines in Afghanistan

    Quote Originally Posted by snay1345 View Post
    I will be taking my speed graphic the next time I go over there. My biggest regret was leaving my speed graphic at home when I went to Iwo Jima. They look good.
    I have been to Iwo Jima as a photojournalist for the US Air Force. I had a couple Nikon F cameras when I went there with a contingent of aging Japanese civilians along with Shinto and Buddhist priests in 1967.

    I wish I had taken a couple Nikonos cameras, instead. My Nikons got so badly soaked with pouring rain that my bulk-loaded Tri-X glued itself to the pressure plates of my cameras. A total mess.

    If any publication is interested, I still have the negatives that survived.

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    Re: Direct positive Portraits of Marines in Afghanistan

    Thanks everyone, I'm glad you all have enjoined them. I really need to develop the rest of the large format photos from this trip.

    Quote Originally Posted by Struan Gray View Post
    I think these are great, both the look of them and the way they present the marines as people, not symbols. They make it clear just how slick and formulaic most journalism about the military is.
    This was kind of a big deal for me. Letting the Marines just do what they wanted for their photos made it much more fun and relaxing for them. Photojournalism overall feels forced and over processed to me nowadays. Like every photo needs to look like a movie poster. Because of that I think we have lost some of the essence photojournalism.

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    Re: Direct positive Portraits of Marines in Afghanistan

    Quote Originally Posted by Kav View Post
    ... every photo needs to look like a movie poster.
    That's a nice way of putting it.

    Photos are used in different ways these days; often as icons, reinforcing an existing idea rather than showing something specific. I think it's great that you've resisted the urge to make photographs which look like other photographs of the same subject.

    I don't know if you know of Robert Wilson's Helmand project (http://www.robertjwilson.com/). The images have a much more commercial look and feel (he's a fashion photographer), but still manage to retain the sense of showing a particular person or situation. His portraits of soldiers who have just come off patrol are an interesting mix of heroic presentation, and genuinely tired and careworn subjects.

    Kudos to you for making the (considerable) effort to lug LF around on deployment. Thanks for letting us see the result.

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    Re: Direct positive Portraits of Marines in Afghanistan

    Kav, it seems you're providing more photos of the war there than our media! This sort of photo experimenting is good for you and at the same time, meaningful to everyone else.

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