Hi Malcom, Your comment reminded me of an article I read in the local fish wrap a few days ago.
http://tinyurl.com/av2ta Shel > [Original Message] > From: Malcolm Smith > Even in the three decades I have taken photographs, it isn't just the > physical change of the surroundings that are recorded, it's the social > change in society that is captured too. I compared two scenes I took > recently on a main local shopping road, one in 1994 and one in 2004 and the > first obvious thing was that in the earlier shot, a good half of folk on the > street were smoking; it's unusual to see more than one or two in a similar > scene today.
