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election ’08 issues watch · The Iraq war
Facing the Iraq Question
- What should the next U.S. president do in Iraq? Here’s advice from people whose opinions matter: nine ordinary—though not necessarily typical—Americans who are planning to vote this November.
Excerpt: “If I were the next [president] I would remove all of our troops in three months’ time. Do you realize that for the past 50 years, since the Korean War, each of our presidents has started a war? Why? I think it is easier to start a war than develop an effective peace plan. . . .” —Cathy Mann, 50, personal trainer and property manager, divorced (one grown child), Aspen, Colorado . . . .“I think this war is OK; we should stay in this war. It’s not like in the old days during WWII when . . . every mother’s son had to enlist. . . . I was in WWII during the final year, and I stayed enlisted through the first year of the Korean war. It’s good to defend your country, but when a whole generation has to go, that’s no good.” —Edward Levine, 84, dentist (still practicing), married (two children, one deceased), New York, New York . . .
About the photographer-interviewers: Photographer, former World Cup snowboarder and semipro mountain-bike racer Andrew Wilz has been shooting his Aspen neighbor Cathy Mann for various rec-sports marketing assignments. “One of the things that I’d yet to pin her down for was a portrait,” he told us. The two have trained together and often discussed politics, Wilz says, adding that he and Mann typically see eye to eye. Wilz specializes in shooting locations, cars and winter sports. ¶Brody Duncan thought his initial answer to the Iraq question was a stock one, so the day after being interviewed he emailed photographer Robin Jerstad a more considered response. The two had met when Duncan moved to Jerstad’s neighborhood during Indy week last year (their homes are a ten-minute walk from the racetrack). Jerstad is staff photographer for the Indianapolis Business Journal. His images have appeared in Sports Illustrated and many other publications. ¶Single mother Marlene Robinson’s own mom is a neighbor of photographer Betsy Winchell’s, which is how the two Angelenos got to know each other. Winchell moved to Southern California in 2004 after attending college in Montana, where she spent her summers as a youth and where her second subject, her grandmother Blanche Winchell, still lives. Last year Winchell began photographing American Muslim life on assignment for an L.A.–based Islamic affairs organization. ¶Whether running errands or walking his three dogs in his suburban Seattle neighborhood, Daniel O’Brien comes across as “animated, opinionated [and] experienced”, even to casual acquaintances like himself, says photographer (and neighbor and fellow dog walker) Earl Belofsky. Belofsky has been taking black-and-white photos of people since he was a teenager living in Oak Park, Ill.; his first photo published by a major newspaper appeared in the Chicago Tribune in 1943. ¶Photographer Annemarie Poyo Furlong met Hyde Hsu through Annemarie’s husband, who works a few cubicles away from Hyde at an investment consulting firm in New York City. “I’ve always thought she had an interesting face,” says Poyo Furlong, a freelance commercial photographer by day who calls portraiture her passion, particularly when she can combine it with her first love (photography-wise): black-and-white film. ¶Photographing people “in a direct and honest way” is a passion of photographer Chae Kihn’s, one she has pursued during a career that has encompassed shooting documentary images for a human-rights organization in South Africa and doing publicity stills for such commercial film productions as The Station Agent. She says she finds her subject Edward Levine, a friend and neighbor of hers in New York City, “always very interesting, with lots of stories”. ¶Photojournalist Thomas Boyd showed up at the office of a student political group at the University of Oregon and found C.J. Ciaramella there, willing to be photographed and interviewed. Boyd served in the Marine Corps before beginning his career as a newspaper photographer in 1992. His images have appeared in major newspapers and such magazines as People and ESPN The Magazine. He is currently a staff photographer at The Oregonian in Portland, Ore. ¶Queens, New York–based photographer Douglas Holt took a day trip to Philadelphia to shoot William Golderer on the hunch that Golderer, his brother-in-law, would have a thoughtful view on the Iraq war. Holt was proved correct: Three days after the portrait session, Golderer emailed an answer to the Iraq question that ran to two pages, single-spaced. Holt’s fashion and advertising work can be viewed at www.dougholtphotography.com.
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