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The Loft Workshop Slideshow/Fiesta at David Alan Harvey's loft in Brooklyn last Friday was an emotional experience in many ways. One was meeting virtual friends-made-real from DAH's blog "Road Trips," and the other was the poignant and occasionally painful photos shared in the slideshow. The famous Magnum photographer Paul Fusco was a case in point. His photo essay, "Chernobyl Legacy," contains some of the saddest photos I've ever seen, and to see these images as Paul is describing the suffering in a hoarse whisper was practically unbearable. But it showed the power of the photograph to be a witness to the suffering of our world's people.

I spent today (Monday) preparing and posting many of the photos I took last weekend. There's also a sub-gallery of photos that Preston Merchant took with my camera. I still have the photos I took at David's loft on Saturday and the street photos I took on Friday to prepare and post.

CLICK HERE to view my "Weekend in Brooklyn" gallery of photos.