Premature baby in the neonatal ICU
In the early 1980s I received an assignment to provide photography for a book about Rome, Georgia. It was to cover all facets of life in Rome -- history, business, culture, healthcare, education, points of interest, etc., as a guide for newcomers to the city.
Times were very different then, and I was welcomed just about everywhere I went. (Perhaps the fact that my project was sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce had something to do with that?) I photographed the campus of Berry College and the Martha Berry Mansion, interesting buildings in the city, various businesses which had purchased ads in the book, even in the hospitals, where I photographed their latest technology, such as the CT Scanner, which was fairly new at the time. I was even welcomed in the nursery, and, even as totally unthinkable as it is in today's environment, the neonatal ICU.
Times have indeed changed, and not for the better. I'm glad I have lived my life when I did, before fear and suspicion raised so many barriers in our world.
After all that, not enough ads were sold to fund the book, so the publisher dropped it. Fortunately, I was paid for my work and I have the pictures.
If you like my photographs, you can see more of them in my online gallery at https://davejenkins.pixels.com/ Looking is free, and, who knows? You might find something you want to keep.
The second edition of my book, Backroads and Byways of Georgia will be released in June, 2023.
Photograph and text copyright 2023 David B.Jenkins.
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Touching photo Dave!
ReplyDeleteI have a photo of my Grandmother's hand and my oldest son who was a NICU baby in 1985. He is 37 now and perfectly healthy, NICU nurses are the best!