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Steven Gregory 06-Jan-2006 20:17
I'm gonna have to vote for all your galleries! Excellent stuff; you manage to portrey what is really out in the world. Thanks for sharing!
antiapathy 12-Apr-2005 22:21
Amelia,
I love your photography. You have a great artistic vision. I especially enjoy the portrait and protest galleries. I also enjoy reading the comments in the protest galleries. I don't understand why capitalists, neoliberals, etc. get so defensive whenever the dominant hegemony is challenged. The scoff at any protest or demonstration that calls for social justice, and claim that "leftists" are dellusional commies who support repressive regimes and hate democracy. While this is an effective tactic to divert attention from the atrocities commited in the name of capitalism, I think it is a sign that they subconsciously recognize how unjust and unsustainable their ideology is.
I think making people more aware (and less apathetic) is the best way to realize a better world. Keep up the good fight, and keep taking pictures!
-a
ulrich 02-Mar-2005 22:26
Leftists are wonderfully simple pests (until they take over countries like Russia, China, Cambodia, Vietnam, etc. and murder or starve to death tens of millions of people). Ever wonder why they love protests so much? They are philosophical collectivists who beleive in the social primacy of consciousness-- that is to say, they beleive that reality is a social construct, not an objective existent. And because they think reality is a social construct, they think that by getting lots of people together who think the same thing, they can alter the nature of reality, without actually DOING anything except all thinking the same thing (and perhaps yelling and breaking windows of the shops of capitalist dogs). And that is the FEELING they get during a protest march: that they are DOING something, that they are CHANGING things. Wonderfully simple pests. And because they like to be around other people who think the same as them at all times, they're incapable of influencing any rational, independent-minded person. That's why they're losing all influence in America.
samvith srinivas 24-Jun-2004 19:10
this gallery in particular and all your work in general is really interesting indeed .. keep it flowing , regards.
Rick Sostaric 03-Apr-2004 00:12
Nice to see I am not the only one with the chutzpah to show images that others would not want seen! Check out the bashing I took on dpreview when I posted the George W. visits C-town thread. Keep up the good works you (we) are not alone.
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