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We Still Love This Park
Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
A 35mm format Color grayscale streetphoto from the
1996 Atlanta Olympic Games shoot of an Atlanta Journal newspaper vendor selling morning editions
of the paper outside Centennial Olympic Park in the first moments after the park reopened following
the terrorist pipe bombing that killed two, injured 11, delayed Olympic events and shut down the park
for three days while security was strengthened.
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Resting Places #1 & #2
Belfast Milltown Cemetery and on a deadly Londonderry (Derry) Road
Belfast & Londonderry, Northern Ireland
35mm format B&W streetphotos from the
Streets of Northern Ireland 1983 shoot.
The image on the left was made in the Milltown (Irish Republican Army) Cemetery in Belfast after a failed negotiation (between G. Mark Smith and half a dozen hooded IRA militia) he trying to gain inner access to photograph an IRA function. Many of the graves in Milltown Cemetery are marked with the typical name, birth date, death date and the common epitaph; Murdered by the British.
The Image on the right was made outside Londonderry on patrol with edgy British troops less than 24 hours
after several of their fellow soldiers were killed and injured nearby by an IRA remote controlled bomb blast while on a similar road patrol
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Wiped Out By An F5+ Tornado
Moore, Oklahoma, USA
35mm format Color streetphotos from the
Streets of the Moore Oklahoma Tornado Aftermath 1999 shoot.
The image on the left is of a Moore resident who lost everything to the Tornado just a little while after he'd paid off the house and retired.
The only thing left standing above the concrete slab where his house used to be were the remnants of an urban lone tree, adorned with litter that was tangled there by the raging storm.
The image on the right is of one of the neighboring Moore properties.
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*In late April 2006 the streets of Johannesburg and Soweto where the revolution against Apartheid succeeded 12 years before weren't exactly historic streets on the Freedom Day weekend of April 26 and 27, 2006, but in many ways -- it felt that way, and besides, Freedom Day in South Africa in 2006 (April 27) was G. Mark Smith's 50th birthday...
*In the photograph at the top left two Johannesburg pedestrians on the phone and sweeping past a Freedom Day parade route.
*In the photograph at the top right are a dozen youth participating in an illegal gang-sponsored gambling operation in a Soweto ghetto where in 2006 an average of more than twenty gang murders occurred every day.
*In the photograph at the bottom left is a Sleeping in the City streetphoto under an overpass urging a new revolution in energy and spirit to roll back a post-Apartheid malaise that after 12 years still had many South African blacks wondering when the new economy was going to catch up and start benefiting them.
*In the photograph at the bottom right is a group of passing Soweto strollers I met, part of a series I ended up calling the Soweto Sisters. and featured in the first Streetphoto of the Week exhibit. |
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And then, there we were -- the day after Freedom Day --
facing the constant reminder on the street that among all it's other problems,
South Africa was still in the grips of and still learning how to deal with a historic Aids epidemic.
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A homeless woman on a Washington Monument bench and a homeless man Up Against The Wall in downtown Washington during the Reagan administration
not long after it cut aid to and closed down dozens of mental institutions.
Timing is everything...
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