Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: spidermike on July 29, 2015, 04:28:17 am
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There is a really interesting program on BBC Radio 4 with Giles Duley who was a photographer injured in Afghanistan. Caught in an explosion he is now a triple amputee and the program is about how it has affected his photography. The program is called 'No Triumph, No tragedy' and for those in UK I am sure will appear on iPlayer. I don't know if people outside UK can access it from Radio 4 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4) but it may well appear on the BBC World Service at some point.
His story is outlined here
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/09/world/europe/09duley.html?_r=0
Mr. Duley had become, in that flash, a triple amputee. Now he risked swiftly bleeding to death. He recalled uttering a single word: “bollocks.”
As the American soldiers he had been walking with rushed toward him and began tightening the tourniquets that would save his life, a fuller line of thought took flight. Rather than tally what was missing, Mr. Duley counted what remained.
“I thought, ‘Right hand? Eyes?’ ” — he realized that all of these were intact — “and I thought, ‘I can work.’ ”
What an attitude!
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Interestingly I have just found another interview, this time on the World Service
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01nrj17