Has anyone seen the excellent MILK photobook series, published here in New Zealand with contributions from around the world? MILK stands for Moments of Intimacy, Laughter, and Kinship - quite a contrast from the depressing images which nightly fill our television screens. Many of the pictures are in B+W and many are Leica pictures: CL, M2, M3, M4, and M6. The others are all "Leica-style" pictures, where "the decisive moment" makes the difference. Unusually, camera and exposure details are listed at the end. If you haven't seen these books, I heartily recommend them.

-- David Killick (dalex@inet.net.nz), March 04, 2002

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"MILK" ing the "FAMILY of MEN" project, and badly .... IMO.

-- sait (akkirman@clear.net.nz), March 04, 2002.

Sure, i know em'......in order of release....family, friendship and love. I ahve the calenders as the books are too expensive for what they are. I will pick em' up some day because each book has some amazing pics, some that even famous pro's would only dream of catching. Definately recommended.

-- Kristian (leicashot@hotmail.com), March 04, 2002.

The problem I had with contributing to the MILK project was that essentially the photographer was required to hand over their content to these guys for free - who would then turn around and use it for books and calendars etc. for profit. Struck me as a really bad deal for the people who actually took the pictures...

-- Andrew Nemeth (azn@nemeng.com), March 04, 2002.

Andrew

You are right, but to be realistic the amount they could have afforded to pay you would have been such a pittance that it would not have been worth it anyway.

-- Robin Smith (smith_robin@hotmail.com), March 05, 2002.