I’ve just read this for the first time. I have to agree with Anton, what a marvelous critique, and what right on suggestions. Damn I wish I were half as insightful.

Rock on

G. Lafleur

P

This is exciting news! Will be holding you in good publishing energy! I know “Sugar” is going to be a book because I “see” it in my mind’s eye…just like I “saw” Obama as president months before the election. I’m a little bit pschic, you know ;+0

love
Patricia

thank you for your message… Birgit’s case is particularly taxing for her and her surroundings, as due to her young age, her pancreas sometimes still kicks in… this makes measuring her blood sugar levels to determine her insuline amount quite difficult.

so in a weird way, and this may sound strange, we are all hoping that soon her pancreas will fail entirely, so that at least she can do away with the constant blood checks and have some saner schedule for administering insuline

on a side note: i am leaving for NYC today to meet with a publisher… i’m hoping things will work out in some way. keeping my fingers crossed :-)

thanks,
anton

Patricia

Patricia

we are not locked on your online essay..we can add new material anytime…it is quite easy..let me know what you want to do….you have many new readers to your essay everyday…and if you look at the very top of the BURN header it says “evolving journal”…

get to it…

cheers, david

Patricia

Welcome to the club of those who do not know when to stop…. Here am I as well, sending an essay to David and Anton and immediately going out afterwards to shoot… By the time David will look at what I have sent there will be 5 or 10 new photographs that I wished I had sent and by the time I will have done that, I am sure this will happen again…:):):): In my case, this never ending issue will get resolved by me moving to a different country so this will take care of my dilemna…. I hope you guys find a less radical solution :):):):):).

Eric

Most interesting to me was your struggle with when to stop shooting….something I struggle with with my own project Anton. Because when is a story thats so much about your personal life really over? Same with Patricia, I would imagine.

This is a beautiful essay exactly as it is shown here. I can’t wait to have my own copy of the book autographed by both you and Brigid!

hugs to you both
Patricia

sorry i have not had a chance to read the comments for a while, participating in the discussion… i’m just catching up now: great stuff, really makes me think a lot deeper about the story i’m telling here.

thanks again for articulating so many views an opinions, i feel priviledged that all you take the time to express a well thought-through opinion about “Sugar”

anton

thanks for your words… and yes, john, you are right: when is it ever finished? i still see her very very often, and every time i pick up my camera because i keep seeeing the moments. at some point i decided that i had enough “base” to tell the story, and then i told myself to stop photographing her, at least for a while, so i could take some distance and create the story. that was probably one of the hardest things to do, put down my camera. i continuously feel like picking it up again for her. and i will soon again, i suspect.

it is not my intention to claim or to tell anything about diabetes in particular; there are many more photographers who have done this a million times better. this story is much more an ode to “choose life”.

patricia!

you have a point there, showing the needles, and we have tried while editing: but… even just ONE needle picture TOTALLY changed the mood of the whole essay… i am not saying showing a needle is wrong or bad, but i feel (and she feels) that including those here, is just not “her” story. it’s not about diabetes per sé, but about a kid who chooses life.

i am still out on a limb about the text slides though, i might feel that closing text (like the accompanying text) is “enough” to tell the story. time will tell.