On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a walk along the South Bank today. Some kids were larking about > on one of the beaches: > > http://www.web-options.com/SB.jpg > > The purpose of the walk was to get to the Royal Festival Hall where > there is an exhibition by a group of Magnum photographs about > present-day slavery. It's a very powerful exhibition and well worth > visiting. As a one-off today there was a live choir with piano > accompaniment performing old spirituals very beautifully and > effectively. > > Perhaps the most moving of the exhibits is by Chris Steele-Perkins - > portraits and the individual stories of South Korean women who were > forced to work as sex slaves - "Comfort Women" - during WW2. The > gesture of this woman reading a caption seemed like a Japanese bow. I > shot from the hip, and got lucky: > > http://www.web-options.com/SB2.jpg > > Link to Magnum's page about the exhibition: > http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.Exhibition > Detail_VPage&pid=29YL5304F234 > > http://tinyurl.com/5p7msu
Both images are very strong - the one of the young lad doing the backflip not just because of the timing of catching him at the apex of his leap, but due to the tension of wondering if he'll have a safe landing: what's underneath him? It looks like he'll land on nice soft sand, but who knows? Certainly he'll not hit water. Very well caught! The second image is very moving. The fact (as you said) that it appears that she might be in the midst of a bow makes it look like she's paying hommage to these women who were so brutally treated by their captors. Obviously these photos of the "comfort girls" were taken late in life - it looks like it must have been a very moving exhibit. One wonders if this elderly lady knew any comfort girls or knew of them. An amazing photo! I hope the exhibit comes to Toronto one day. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
