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"Artist Or Businessman", Personal Needs Series © Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto.com 1990-1991
Photo copyright Linda Dawn Hammond 1990-1991
Series of self-portraits based on actual personal ads placed in newspapers.
PERSONAL NEEDS
by Linda Dawn Hammond
The original Series (since expanded) consists of 12 self-portraits inspired by actual ads, placed in the personal columns of newspapers. Each photograph matches an ad as an "ultimate" response, though more often the result is closer to my own than what the writer of the ad would wish or require. These are self-portraits and as such, permit me the illusion of becoming anyone's "ideal", whereas in fact, by nature of the disguise and deception, I answer to no one. There is a message of hope, as the series suggests that only the constraints of our imagination restrict us in terms of who we may become in this life. On a darker side, it explores the prescribed limitations set by others, who seek to limit and mold their intended into a creature of their own making. The images explore sexuality, gender roles, fetishism and the "desperation to connect" as a Human condition. Humour keeps it all in perspective. The original photographs are made from large format (4 by 5 inch) negatives; the "photo corners" / ads are Canon Laser copies. They were presented in gold and velour frames, accompanied with 11 Fetish boxes, (dim. 8" by 10"), which contained objects,various textures and excepts of text by Gilles Deleuze from his book, Coldness and Cruelty. 12 B&W photographs, (dim. 11" by14"),11 Fetish boxes, (dim. 8" by 10"), including... 1. Hermaphrodite Welcome , 2. Biblical Wife , 3. Planet of Her Own Making , 4. Gothic Romance , 5. Heavyset Teddybear Seeks , 6. New Woman , 7. Meatless Meal , 8. Artist or Businessman, 9. Genius With a Big Dick, 10. 4His Slaves, 11. Kitten With Claws, 12. Big Where It Counts.
An additional photograph, 13. Female Touch, was added to the Artefect exhibit in 1991, in protest of Canada Council funding for Artists being diverted to finance the Gulf war effort. Since that time, additional photographs were created as part of the ongoing series, which have yet to be displayed.
EXHIBITIONS
Sept 91
Maison de la Culture Marie-Uguay,
Montréal
Mois de la Photo à Montréal- Juried group exhibit entitled, "Appel Aux Jeunes Photographes":
Personal Needs - 12 B&W photographs, (dim. 11" by14"),11 Fetish boxes, (dim. 8" by 10")
March 91
Artefect Gallery, Toronto
Solo exhibit entitled, Physical Addictions:
Personal Needs- 39 B&W photographs (dim. 11" by14"), 11 Fetish Boxes (dim. 8" by 10")
REVIEWS
WORK SEEN Spring, 1991 Toronto
Linda Dawn Hammond: Physical Addictions and Personal Needs, author:
John D. MacBride
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"The man who shoots his own portrait has a fool for a photographer."
I bounded out of bed Christmas morning with a strange burst of enthusiasm to put the finishing tweaks on my experimental portrait flash setup. This is based on two of my homemade sheet metal softboxes diffusing the main and fill flash.
The main light is my beefy Olympus T32 with its C-cell powered grip. I have the 5-meter TTL cable, so that it can do autoexposure when shooting with my OM-2's. But here it's firing on manual (at 1/2 power), triggered by a cute little Honeywell Foto-Eye optical slave sync that Mark gave me. It's almost too bright for Tri-X --I think I was at f/16 here.
The fill flash is some generic cheapie AA-powered thing, that I literally found on a curb in my neighborhood after it had been rejected by the recycling truck driver. Its one notable quality is that it actually has manual settings for 1/4 and 1/2 power. Here it's fired at 1/4 power, right alongside the Mamiya and triggered from its PC sync socket.
The final tweak was adding a little pipsqueak AAA-powered slave flash, firing over my shoulder. I added a little cardboard snoot to the front of that slave, to keep its light from spilling into the lens or onto the background.
That shadow behind me is a little distracting, so next time I would probably move the background further away. Also I would try to look slightly more awake...
Liliana Garcia (age 22, from Costa Mesa, 5th year, Psychology and Communications major) is photographed for the #WeAreChico series on Monday, November 29, 2021 in Chico, Calif. Garcia was asked about the impacts of the Hungry Wildcats Food Pantry.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/Chico State)
We had a week walking in the Lake District in August. We haven’t spent a week there in the school summer holidays before but it was a case of needs must regarding available holidays. We stayed B&B in Ambleside as we couldn’t get self-catering at short notice. It was cheaper and breakfast is included, the downside is that we couldn’t get out as soon as we would have liked. Saturday – the day we drove up –was forecast to be good but was going to followed by a couple of rainy days so we drove straight to Dunmail Raise, arriving around 11.30. I told Jayne we were nipping up Seat Sandal but once up there it would have been silly not to go up Dollywagon and Nethermost Pikes, and then of course Helvellyn was only a stride away. We didn’t linger long in the crowds on Helvellyn, we had a knee jarring rapid descent to Steel End. We managed to get to Brysons tearooms in Keswick for afternoon apple pie- you’ve got to keep it civilised!
The weather alternated between very wet and very nice, it was like winter on three days so we stayed low and just did half day eight milers – in waterproofs. We got soaked through. On the other days we walked in shorts and tee shirts and went high. The weather was variable depending where in the Lakes you were which made choosing a walk difficult. We went to Crummock Water and parked near Rannerdale Knotts with the intention of doing a walk we’ve done several times before. Straight up the nose of Rannerdale Knotts, with a view that gets better all the time, along the top to the foot of the slog up Whiteless Pike and Wandope. The weather was good for walking, although we had very light rain initially and it was cool for August. On to Grasmoor and then Coledale Hause, over Sand Hill and Hopegill Head. The ridge walk along Whiteside has to be one of the nicest ways to head off the fells. Ten and a half miles and 4000 feet of ascent, it was a decent day out.
The following day was beautiful so we got out as early as possible and headed up Langdale to Old Dungeon Ghyll. The car park was filling with groups getting ready for a fine day on the fells after so much bad weather. We headed up The Band, picking the climbers traverse under the cliffs of Bow Fell up as I wanted to get to the top via the Great Slab. This is a great way to the top of Bow Fell, far more interesting than the main drag. The itinerary after this was, Esk Pike, Great End – at the end of the Sca Fell Massif, it was tempting to leg it out to Sca Fell Pike but it looked like a football match it was that crowded. Back to Esk Hause up on to Allen Crags, back to Esk Hause again, Angle Tarn and our final top was Rossett Pike with its stunning views over Langdale. Down Rossett Gill to Mickleden. Just over 12 miles and 4250 feet of ascent, another cracking day.
Thursday was our last forecast dry day and the day of the Rydal show. The weather was fantastic but it was going to be bedlam on the roads. We walked out of Ambleside to Rydal and cracked of around the Fairfield Horseshoe. It was that calm that people were sunbathing on the tops by midday. Calmness was one welcome feature of the week but when the rain came it didn’t shift so quick. The following day we did a circuit of Buttermere in the pouring rain, it was just a case of walking the cooked breakfast off really.
Rotary Club Gathering at Gymkhana Karachi
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Speech to members of Rotary Club Karachi, Members of a Rotary club are part of a diverse group of professional leaders working to address various community and international service needs and to promote peace and understanding throughout the world.
Gymkhana Karachi
Pervaiz Lodhie (Chief Guest)
Anis Yunus (Facilitator from Rotary Club Karachi)
Shahid Siddique (Plant Manager-Shaan Technologies)
Abdul Aziz (Manager Marketing-ShaanTech)
Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world.
Mr. Anis Yunus and some others members of Rotarian Club Karachi were aware of the humanitarian efforts of Lodhie Foundation and its Founder Mr. Pervaiz Lodhie, taking the advantage of presence of Mr, Lodhie in Karachi Pakistan, Mr. Anis Yunus invited for speech to Rotarians who are making efforts for creating soft image of Pakistan in the world.
Autodromo di Monza - the birthplace of speed as some would call it. Monza needs no introduction, every blade of grass screams history and it's elevated banking stares at you from all angles.
Set within parklands and within a mainly residential area you would not really know it was there if you drove by.
Home of the Tifosi, Monza gave me great insights as to the lengths a passionate Formula 1 fan will go to get a glimpse of their heroes. Ladders, campsites, bikes you name it, they bring it.
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On 8 December 2020, first consignment of lifesaving supplies arrived at Bole Airport, Addis Ababa to meet humanitarian needs in Tigray. The 74 cubic meters of supplies includes four emergency health kits containing essential medicines for treating 10,000 persons for 3 months, 84,300 medical masks, and 550 School-in-a-Box kits that can support the education of up to 22,000 children.UNICEFEthiopi/2020/NahomTesfaye
even a sneeze rippled the water, sometimes it took several min to smooth out after I took a few steps
This abandoned shoe has a story to tell, but we may not be able to hear it. Who lost it? Why did they leave it? What happened in this spot?
Found at a comp spot on the edge of the Mogollon Rim, overlooking Pine, Arizona.
Three months after two devastating earthquakes hit Nepal, killing and injuring thousands of people, and destroying homes, food and seeds in storage, innovative crowdsourcing technology and diversity kits are helping to match seeds to needs as part of the disaster recovery plan.
Credit: Bioversity International/N. Pudasani, LI-BIRD, Dolkha
Sandalwood Parkway Westbound at Pinecone Way. Here you can see there is plenty of room for the multi-use path to have its own curb cut so cyclists can travel adjacent to pedestrians rather than potentially interfere with them one the Ontario Highway Traffic Act has been amended to allow cyclists to ride through intersections adjacent to a crosswalk.
What an amazing feeling it is when you know that you helped someone who truly needs assistance and would not have been able to afford it. To know that it is because of your help, someone’s life got a little bit easier and safer. That was the goal and vision of Joseph Harper, a boy with Duchene Muscular Dystrophy, who 5 years ago created The Wheeled Scotsman’s Foundation to do just that….to help people with mobility issues who cannot afford to make their homes safe because certain accommodations like ramps, pull bars in the bathroom, wheelchair accessible showers, etc. are usually not covered by insurance. Sadly, Joey passed away in January of 2010, yet his vision and legacy lives on in the people whose lives he has impacted as well as his family and friends who continue to run The Wheeled Scotsman.
It is with renewed vigor and urgency that we push forward and try to help as many people as we can. To date, The Wheeled Scotsman Foundation has been able to help more than 10 families make their homes safer. We send out our contractors, pay for all permits, and complete all work at absolutely no cost to the family or individual. Although we wish we could help everyone on our waiting list, we are limited by funds. 100% of the money raised through fundraisers, like the Black Sheep Run, is spent to help others and this is where we need your help!!!
The Kid’s 1 Mile Fun Run will start at 9 am. The Family Fun Walk will start at 9:15 am. The 5K will start at 9:30 am. Dogs on leashes and baby strollers are all welcomed. Awards will be given when all the races for that day have finished. This includes: top male and female for each category as well as the top five males and females of each category will also be recognized. Categories consist of: dogs on leash, baby joggers, and headphones
You can sign up for this event at active.com just type in black sheep run in the search bar at our event will pop up:
Not a very salubrious place to hang about for an hour.. but needs must and with the weather holding off its potential for more rain and with the set clearly on time and not hanging about, was worth spending the time waiting for the shot of the working now coming back and heading via Woodburn Junction and another reversal, on into Sheffield and then back out along the Midland main line past Meadowhall, up the Blackburn Valley line and on to Wakefield. Upper two pictures are both (difficult) composite images showing at top the leading DRS 20, now 20312, popping out from behind the rampant vegetation to re-cross the Bridgehouses viaduct. Just behind the train on the right was the connection up from the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway's (then Midland) Wicker Goods yard to here and was a very steep grade, 1 in 25, hence the name of one of the locos, 'Fiery Jack', which used to haul the short set of wagons up the hill; there is much information about its history, here-
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A 'just one click away', i.e. Tesco, van passes under the bridge in top picture, heading away to deliver on-line ordered provisions in a market which has seen a dramatic decrease in its share price due to what is charmingly termed 'miss-accounting' and in fact other just as dubious shenanigans, revealed over the last few weeks. As the colourful, dirty set heads back to Woodburn in the centre picture which also shows another useful article of road transport, a standard size domestic skip, we are all glad to see when rubbish needs to be moved; though here in Sheffield there does not appear to be any limit on the length of time these are left on the road outside folks' houses before they are finally picked up, inevitably leading to more material being dumped on the top and over-filling them! Lower picture, with sun full out but now out of shot, an attempt at the scene in B/W which would work apart from (a) the burgeoning vegetation at the track-side once more and (b) the new build in the background, it never looked like this in the heyday of the MSL's electrified Woodhead line and usage of Sheffield Victoria station, perched on the Wicker Viaduct and land to the north-west on this side and partially, the south-east in the distance.
This man asked me for a lighter. I didn't have one so I ran back to my car and got one for him. I then asked him to let me take his photograph.
OVER HALF A MILLION PEOPLE took to the streets of London on Saturday 26th March. They were marching against the Con-Dem government’s cuts. It was one of the biggest protests this country has ever seen. Every single trade union was represented on the protest and they were joined by anti cuts campaigners, pensioners, students and the unemployed.
No amount of police provocation against peaceful protesters or headlines in papers about violence can obscure that this was a massive working class demonstration.
And its power came from numbers and the social power they represent. It was a determined but angry protest. Millions of workers fear for their jobs and millions more are right to believe that the Tories are out to destroy their communities.
Magnificent
This government, held up by it’s Lib Dem collaborators, knows and cares nothing about the pain it causes, after all the majority of the cabinet are millionaires and two thirds went to private school.
The marchers’ message was clear—not one cut and not one job loss. And they are right: why should workers and the poorest in society pay for a crisis they did not create?
There doesn’t have to be a single cut or job loss. Greg Philo published an important article in the Guardian newspaper recently. He highlighted the fact that the personal wealth of the richest 10% of the population in Britain is £4,000 billion.
A one off tax of 20% on the wealth of this group would raise £800 billion and would wipe off Britain’s debt in one fell swoop.
With this in mind it’s crazy that Ed Miliband and New Labour are arguing that some cuts are necessary and that it’s the pace of the cuts that’s the problem. There’s no need to make cuts at all!
Saturday’s demonstration was magnificent, but it alone will not be enough to force Cameron and his cronies to make a U-turn. The Socialist Workers Party believes that if we are going to stop the Tories in their tracks, we will need further mass protests—and more importantly, strikes involving hundreds of thousands of workers.
And we are not alone. On Saturday the leader of Unite (Britain’s biggest union), Len McCluskey, told those at the rally “This is only the start. We need a plan of resistance including coordinated strike action.”
Strike
Again when Mark Serwotka (the general secretary of the PCS) addressed the march he said, “Imagine what a difference it would make if we didn’t only march together but took strike action together.”
It’s time to turn those words into action. Already some unions, including the NUT, PCS and UCU are moving to joint action on pensions at the end of June—this could see 700,000 teachers, civil servants and lecturers on strike together.
That would be a good start, and would put pressure on the government, but we could really finish Cameron if the GMB, Unison and Unite also called their members out. We would see 5 million on strike—that would signal the end of Cameron.
Now we are all back at work, there is no time to waste. Union meetings need to be called as soon as possible and every union section/branch/region needs to be passing motions calling on their unions to call joint strike action now.
The message is simply that we marched together, now it’s time to strike together.
Article: Socialist Worker www.socialistworker.co.uk
We had a week walking in the Lake District in August. We haven’t spent a week there in the school summer holidays before but it was a case of needs must regarding available holidays. We stayed B&B in Ambleside as we couldn’t get self-catering at short notice. It was cheaper and breakfast is included, the downside is that we couldn’t get out as soon as we would have liked. Saturday – the day we drove up –was forecast to be good but was going to followed by a couple of rainy days so we drove straight to Dunmail Raise, arriving around 11.30. I told Jayne we were nipping up Seat Sandal but once up there it would have been silly not to go up Dollywagon and Nethermost Pikes, and then of course Helvellyn was only a stride away. We didn’t linger long in the crowds on Helvellyn, we had a knee jarring rapid descent to Steel End. We managed to get to Brysons tearooms in Keswick for afternoon apple pie- you’ve got to keep it civilised!
The weather alternated between very wet and very nice, it was like winter on three days so we stayed low and just did half day eight milers – in waterproofs. We got soaked through. On the other days we walked in shorts and tee shirts and went high. The weather was variable depending where in the Lakes you were which made choosing a walk difficult. We went to Crummock Water and parked near Rannerdale Knotts with the intention of doing a walk we’ve done several times before. Straight up the nose of Rannerdale Knotts, with a view that gets better all the time, along the top to the foot of the slog up Whiteless Pike and Wandope. The weather was good for walking, although we had very light rain initially and it was cool for August. On to Grasmoor and then Coledale Hause, over Sand Hill and Hopegill Head. The ridge walk along Whiteside has to be one of the nicest ways to head off the fells. Ten and a half miles and 4000 feet of ascent, it was a decent day out.
The following day was beautiful so we got out as early as possible and headed up Langdale to Old Dungeon Ghyll. The car park was filling with groups getting ready for a fine day on the fells after so much bad weather. We headed up The Band, picking the climbers traverse under the cliffs of Bow Fell up as I wanted to get to the top via the Great Slab. This is a great way to the top of Bow Fell, far more interesting than the main drag. The itinerary after this was, Esk Pike, Great End – at the end of the Sca Fell Massif, it was tempting to leg it out to Sca Fell Pike but it looked like a football match it was that crowded. Back to Esk Hause up on to Allen Crags, back to Esk Hause again, Angle Tarn and our final top was Rossett Pike with its stunning views over Langdale. Down Rossett Gill to Mickleden. Just over 12 miles and 4250 feet of ascent, another cracking day.
Thursday was our last forecast dry day and the day of the Rydal show. The weather was fantastic but it was going to be bedlam on the roads. We walked out of Ambleside to Rydal and cracked of around the Fairfield Horseshoe. It was that calm that people were sunbathing on the tops by midday. Calmness was one welcome feature of the week but when the rain came it didn’t shift so quick. The following day we did a circuit of Buttermere in the pouring rain, it was just a case of walking the cooked breakfast off really.
About Vatican City
Perhaps the Vatican needs no introduction. The center of Catholicism, and encompassing the Vatican City state, as well as the surrounding Roman neighborhoods of the Vaticano, Prati, and Monte Mario, this small slice of the city is packed with more history and artwork than most cities in the world.
For the week I will be posting some works of my good friend Patrick Cheah who went on a journey to witness the ceremony of the beatification of John Paul II, the biggest event in Vatican City since his death six years ago. His journey starts from Milan.
A selection of Patrick's images will appear on my stream this week while I take a short break. You will surely find them interesting and compelling as much as I do. Hope you will enjoy my selection as I post them in stages. Mr Cheah has graciously allowed me to showcase some of his shots for public viewing at my discretion.
Thank you all again for following my stream and I apologise that I am unable to keep up with so many kind comments.
Photographer: Patrick Cheah
Camera: Sony DSC-WX1
Digital editing: William Cho
Software: "Topazlab Adjust" with Photoshop