Comments on: “You Are Alive”

By: Ann

Ann — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:23:33 +0000

I have been looking everywhere for this print…I saw it somewhere and would like very much to buy a copy. Does anyone know where I can find it–or who the photographer is or the owner of copyright?

Thanks so much.

By: heatherinparadise

heatherinparadise — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:14:08 +0000

I own a print of that very graffito, from the exhibition of photographs that toured the US after 9/11. It changed me, seeing that.

By: simlaughter

simlaughter — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:57:10 +0000

That’s an interesting connection, Strategist. Perhaps the greatest challenge in a “post-human” age such as ours is to be remembered as individuals with lives of our own, rather than statistics. I think that’s what at the heart of my picture (which hangs on my wall, one of the few pieces of decoration that I have).

By: kotare

kotare — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:09:13 +0000

This is a fascinating insight. A leitmotif of the 20th century, and early 21st, is the way vast numbers of people disappeared, or went ‘missing’ to use the military term, from the killing fields of WW1 France and Belgium, to those of Cambodia and Rwanda, and to the megacities of today.

Bill Manhire, in ‘Lifted’, wrote a poem which I think conveys something similar to the idea in your post. The poem is ‘Erebus Voices’, and commerates the crash of a New Zealand airliner into Mt Erebus, Antarctica, with total loss of life. Part of the poem runs as follows:

The Dead

We fell.
Yet we were loved and we are lifted.
We froze.
Yet we were loved and we are warm.
We broke apart.
Yet we are here and we are whole.