Ali,
That's how I feel about northeast Indiana, where I lived until I moved to
new mexico back in June. A lot of farmland there is disappearing to make
way for housing additions and shopping centers. I spent more than a decade
photographing these disappearing and forgotten places.
I always knocked on the door and asked permission and only a couple people
in all those years said no. Most were very nice and wanted to know what I
was photographing for. I told them I was an artist who was born in Fort
Wayne and still lived there and that I'd studied art at Indiana University.
Fort Wayne is the main city of northeast Indiana. A lot of rural people in
Indiana are suspicious of outsiders, but when they found out I was born in
Indiana and still lived there, I was no longer an outsider, but a fellow
Hoosier and many of the old farmers would come out and show me interesting
things to photograph on their land. I offered everyone a set of prints, and
most took them and were very appreciative of them. I never framed any, too
expensive for me, but I always made archival exhibition quality prints that
I signed. If I ever become very famous it will be because so many people
were so helpful to me when I was young (I'm only 31) and they deserve a
print that will be worth something if my work ever becomes valuable.
Chris Crawford
Santa Fe, NM
http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com
On 1/3/07 9:10 AM, "Ali Shah" <alizookoman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Sanborn - has that country feel even tho its about a
> mile long in either direction! 8-))
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> I learned so much from the Countryside Photography
> workshop that I took through UB. For example, one of
> the sad things that I found out is that many barns get
> neglected because people cannot afford to pay the
> taxes. All that history slowly fading away.
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> - Ali
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