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Please look at my slides of Brazil in 1983

14th January 2010
In 1983 I took a freighter to Brazil and thus started a year that would change my life forever. I stayed in luxurious penthouse apartments, then favellas, and, finally, dollar a night fleapits - you could not call them hotels. It was the year in which I turned my back on modelling and all its superficialities for good. I started utterly miserable at the top and ended at peace near the bottom. With me, my companion, was a fantastic amateur canon, the T90, and about fifty rolls of slide film supplied by a German magazine, Fur Sie - it was mostly fujichrome I think. The slides were developed as I traveled and came out of the labs with various signs of overheated chemicals etc, and then they were further treated to the intense Brazilian heat, and the humidity of the Amazon jungle areas. I traveled with a rectangular yellow kodak cooler bag in which I crammed my entire disintegrating wardrobe wrapped around the precious film in a futile attempt to spare it. To finish this gourmet treatment of my work in a fitting manner, my poor slides traveled all over the world with me for the next 30 years, forgotten. They suffered numerous house renovations, insect infestations, and viral attacks. I am slowly trying to scan them. It is not easy. Some are impossibly afflicted, laced with advance fungus spores. These represent but a small fraction of my stock. I am hoping to find a scanner with FUNCTIONING software to do them justice, but in the meantime, their age and degraded qualities place them firmly in the past and so they have their own charm I think.

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