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[hugh]

which one is it? i've read about the x1 and x5 - and the x1 takes 8 minutes to scan a 35mm slide at full res?
also, how easy is it to get time on it on a saturday?

In there right now ... it's an X1.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

poor birdy reminds me of these guys... also great/sad series of shots http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/midway/#CF000313 18x24

There is a good Chris Jordan interview in the Marketplace of Ideas podcast from a few months ago.

(I havent seen the Midway albatross photos but I saw some of the Running The Numbers project that were all over the interweb a few years back, they were very impressive in the flesh. Huge. About 4' x 6'

 

[La La]

some bits from recent photo assignments

Freedom Park, Phnom Penh

Taken after this journo was freed from prison after a year

Cocktail judges

An NGO here pays parents of scavenger children to send their children to school. The kids would otherwise lose their childhoods in one of the city's municipal dumps.

In a nutshell: big corporation given rights to fill in the city's main (and biggest) lake, thereby forcing the evictions of thousands of residents (many of them poor) on the lake's periphery. If they don't move quickly enough, their houses - and wordly possessions - are buried under tonnes of sand. Yes, that is the roof of the house.

pics from protest over lake evictions coming soon
-and no, I'm not really missing Ireland. I saw a preview for that Fade St show - what the hell? Utter shite. If I watch the Guinness Christmas ad though - always gives me slight homesick pangs.

 

[hugh]

-and no, I'm not really missing Ireland. I saw a preview for that Fade St show - what the hell? Utter shite. If I watch the Guinness Christmas ad though - always gives me slight homesick pangs.

Wait until you hear Gazzer's Xmas song. You'll be on the next plane back. Great photos La La .....

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Accidentally double post.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Hey how come this didn't post before?

 

[bogmanfan]

 

[bogmanfan]

Tinsel

 

[goldiejam]

i feel dizzy

 

[La La]

The last 24 hours have been the most horrifying, exhausting experience. Last night I was shooting at one of the hospitals here; after two hours of sleep I was back out, this time at a morgue, stepping over bodies as flies buzzed around in the unrelenting heat. The hollow wailing coming from the pit of people's stomachs as they IDd their loved ones and the smell of death I will never forget.
These are from last night (at a hospital where 140 stampede dead were brought); will post today's shots another time, though many are too gruesome to share. I always wanted to get into disaster/conflict photography. Now I've had a taste, I'm not sure how I feel about it all.

 

[Janer]

I was in the pub...now I've had a taste of it I think I'll def get into it some more.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

That last one is a cracker LaLa - what's the story?

 

[La La]

2 million+ people came to phnom penh for the water festival which ended on monday. on mon night there was a stampede and people were crushed on a bridge for about 4-5 hours. some fell/jumped off. current death toll is just under 400, about 800 injured. most of the dead are women, many of them just slight young things. many victims are from the provinces, so yesterday their families began a desperate scramble around the city's hospitals to ID their loved ones. bodies were laid out - they seemed innumerable at the time - on the floor on mats, in clear body bags or covered with a thin shroud. I really have never experienced anything like it in my life.
PR - yeah, you should stick with pubs and swans.

 

[jonah]

Sounds... I don't even know. But the photos are stunning, La la. Do you think you'll be out there for long?

 

[Janer]

La la. Do you think you'll be out there for long?

OFC she will, she's a journalist, she's as tough as old boots.

 

[La La]

was going to post another batch, but instead i'm just gonna post two more because I have to go and cry Punk Rock a river, since that's what he asked me to do in a negative rep message.
anyone with an interest in seeing some new ones from yesterday can go to my flickr page. fuck it, over and out.

 

[hugh]

Ah La La .. keep putting your photos up here. I've given up on Flickr ... and won't remember to go there and look. It's really interesting seeing what you are doing over there.

 

[bogmanfan]

Ok, not as heavy as La La's excellent shots, but had a bit of fun with some lights this evening.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

Ah La La .. keep putting your photos up here. I've given up on Flickr ... and won't remember to go there and look. It's really interesting seeing what you are doing over there.

Yeah seconded.
I just checked out the full set on flickr too. Jesus, rough stuff, hope you're OK.

 

[hugh]