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Found Film Friday: Good Times for the “Smith” Family
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve gotten to know a family (dubbed “Smith” by me) via a pile of undeveloped film from the 1960s which ended up with me. The Smith family was primarily into photographing the kids, but also occasionally the grandparents turn up, during all of the major family events. Hence we…
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Dispatch from Sierra Leone: Walking in Freetown
There are two seasons in Sierra Leone: Â the dry season…and the rainy season. Â Although there is some rain in the “dry” season, the vast majority of the 3Â meters of rain that fall on Freetown during a typical year occur between May and October, with an average of an inch a day in August. Â Some people…
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Dispatch from Sierra Leone: Rain and Monkeys
It has been  an extremely challenging first week in Sierra Leone.  An ebola outbreak – the world’s worst to date – has stretched the country’s already limited medical capacity to the limit.  Although the epidemic has been going on since May, for some reason the media chose the last week or so to spin this…
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Found Film: The Smith Family Celebrates Easter
Last week we met the “Smith” family (as I’ve decided to name them), celebrating Christmas in a series of moments captured on Kodacolor-X film – manufactured between 1963 and 1972 – on an unknown camera. Â This week it appears they’ve moved on to Easter. This fellow seems to be the favorite of the photographer, as…
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Found Film: The Smith Family Celebrates Christmas
I have no idea who this family is, but now that I have developed a bunch of their pictures, Â I’ve gotten to know them a bit and it only seems appropriate to give them a name. Â I’m calling them the Smith Family. Â The Smiths were pretty good about photographing family events and trips, but it…