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I went to Alastair Thain’s exhibition recently who has been producing extraordinary portraits. He built a series of cameras himself, based on those used by NASA to photograph Earth from the space shuttle. The result is the most advanced high-resolution land-based camera system in existence, which uses negatives measuring nine by 18 inches, and creates prints up to four metres in height.
 
I was amazed by the quality and clarity of the photographs but what really caught my attention was those in the pictures. There was portraits of fairly ordinary people doing extraordinary things with their lives, (I thought you would like that – You know who you are!) such as Fabien Cousteau. He was the only man who has ever viewed the ocean through the eyes of a great white shark, or Dr Mae Jemison who has lived a life of extraordinary achievements. For most people, being a qualified engineer and medical physician, who speaks Swahili, Russian and Japanese and has worked for the Peace Corps in Sierra Leona, would be quite enough for one lifetime. But she was also determined to fulfil a childhood dream to travel into space. Hmm…in 1992 she became the first African-American woman to do just that.
 
Ps. Good luck with the pitch “Superman”!

Posted by Linda on 22 Sep 08, at 11:26 am

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