http://www.metafilter.com/tags/isitstillworthy Posts tagged with 'isitstillworthy' at MetaFilter. Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:17:50 -0800 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:17:50 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/62893/Does%2Dthe%2Dlie%2Dmake%2Dit%2Dless%2Dbeautiful On the <a href="http://www.monthofphoto.sg/07/index_exhibitions.shtml">sidelines</a> of <a href="http://www.monthofphoto.sg/07/">a photography exhibition</a> in Singapore, an collective named <a href="http://adoseoflight.com/">"A Dose of Light"</a> was preparing to display the final set of <a href="http://adoseoflight.com/overdose/last.html">36 photos</a> <small><em>(flash, slow-loading)</em></small>, taken by "Wu Xiao Kang", a photographer being treated by schizophrenia before he committed suicide at the age of 26 (<a href="http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1159490.aspx">text of press release</a>). To add to the tragedy, the photographs were now in the possession of a photographic research institute and would not be released till 2010. Maybe, if people signed <a href="http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/wuxiaokang">a petition</a>, the institute might be persuaded to change it's mind? [more inside] tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.62893 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:17:50 -0800 exhibition fake isitstillworthy photography singapore your mildly obsessive average geek