here's something else ...
it's a cyanotype
I was thinking of this place down the road from me
sand and stone breakwater, a tidal pool/the bay ... and this happened
I didn't add any colors with a computer they are in the print.
Last edited by jnantz; 20-Nov-2022 at 13:34.
cyanotype
colors not added by me, they are in the print
Group of kids (all orphans) living by themselves (no adults) in the village of Dembidollo, Ethiopia - circa. Jan. 2001:
(Leica M-6, 50mm Summicron)
Extremely difficult light...very low shutter speed wide open so a bit blurry - but still one of my favorites from my eight trips to that country providing documentation for a foundation.
Martin...these kids lived in two rows of small huts with a footpath in between. On my second visit a year later I took a number of prints to give to them - and on yet another visit I noticed that all of the huts had been decorated with these prints!
And while these kids were essentially living and caring for themselves with no adults present - there were indeed a few adults from a nearby village who would occasionally check up on them.
My last visit to Ethiopia was in 2006...and I also wonder how these kids (now adults - all of them hopefully) are doing.
But as for wondering how Ethiopians are doing - I think back to my first visit in 1999 to the border of Tigray and Eritrea during a horrible conflict...and then how in the following years things settled out and some very real progress was finally being made, with people and families beginning to thrive and sustain themselves...very often with minimal to no outside "help."
Then last year it all fell apart again...at least in Tigray - which breaks my heart.
cyanotype
was sweeping the floor and re-found this book.
sculptural form thoughgram
filled with 18 images
climate change as depicted from 17,500mph on the ISS
and a dream
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