Hi, well I've posted a couple more pdf's on my website. This time all you need to do is go directly to my site and download them from the main page. Enjoy!

Please tell me if you have any difficulties of any sort.

-- rob (rob@robertappleby.com), February 02, 2002

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Thanks again. More brilliant work Rob. Keep feeding us more....and get that site running again. Oh are you Italian?

-- Kristian Dowling (leicashot@hotmail.com), February 02, 2002.

Kristian, I just live in Italy. I've decided to keep the site as bare as possible, I really like the pdf mechanism and the longer download time isn't an issue for the people I want to see my work. Also I don't have time to design the site again and make it compatible with all browsers, screen sizes and so on. So what you see now is more or less what it's going to be for the foreseeable future.

I will be putting up a couple more pdf's over the next couple of days, one more of Dharavi and one of Hazara refugees in Quetta. That'll be it for the time being.

Again, thanks for the kind words.

-- rob (rob@robertappleby.com), February 02, 2002.

A compelling body of work Robert. You have quite a knack at establishing an intimacy with your subjects!

Cheers,

-- John (ouroboros_2001@yahoo.com), February 02, 2002.

OK, final pdf's now uploaded - Hazaratown stories, an article about Hazara refugees in Quetta Pakistan, and a selection of untitled images from Dharavi Bombay.

As usual, any comments more than welcome, especially the editing aspect!

Cheers

-- rob (rob@robertappleby.com), February 03, 2002.

Thanks rob, great work!

-- Richard (richard.srienz@swissonline.ch), February 03, 2002.

I enjoyed it very much, Rob, especially the scope and variety. Where does the "City of Crows" title come from?

-- Preston Merchant (merchant@speakeasy.org), February 03, 2002.

Bombay is the city of crows - funny that for a city on the sea, it has no seagulls. But crows everywhere, the survivors and tricksters. My favourite birds, even when they shit on your head just as you're drinking a coke with friends.

Also a reference to the Wallace Stevens poem, 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird:

"O thin men of Haddam Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women about you?"

My credo as a snapper.

When I was in Marakech a lot, I used to imagine doing a "13 ways of looking at the Koutoubiya" but never got round to it. I'll do it one day.

-- rob (rob@robertappleby.com), February 03, 2002.

Great pictures, and informative narratives as well !

Thanks!

-- Jacques (jacquesbalthazar@hotmail.col), February 05, 2002.

Rob: I meant to tell you I got through on this new post and found both the new .pdfs and the Lansdowne Rd as well. Thanks.

The pictures are great. I keep the .pdfs on my desktop because I'm still going back to them to absorb them slowly.

As a publication designer I have one small quibble with your otherwise clean and simple presentations. I'd lose the bright primary blue type for your name - it seem out of sync with the colors in the pictures and just a little too 'loud'. If you want a bright color, a more "Indian" ochre or sari-like red-orange might work better, or even just the white you used for the titles.

-- Andy Piper (apidens@denver.infi.net), February 06, 2002.