Stan Walker: Great heart, great loss
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Stan Walker died of cancer this week. He was a photographer and a colleague of longstanding The Post-Standard. His death came quickly breathtaking. Some of us had not even known he was sick. At the heart of the newsroom to our shock, Frank Ordonez - a magnificent Photographers - Today, a comment that I thought was the simplest and most beautiful epitaphs: It is impossible, said Frank to find a single bad thing to say Stan Walker. This was not,. Frank nailed. Stan was sympathetic, concerned, always optimistic. It was a real audience. It was also enthusiastic about the plight of children in the city who has volunteered to him countless hours working with children. Stan was African Americans, and he did what he could to repair the damage and life of the child before ice. It does speak silently on the obstacles of childhood, many boys and girls he knew. He would only say that it was a sheer lack of the family, as it is easy to write, savage and destructive patterns of American history, cultural ties deep scars or wounds saignantes. These reflections led to a number, we worked together in 2003, under the leadership of editor John Lammers, a series based on a simple principle: We went to Syracusans in their daily activities of 50 and 60 years, done and went to work every day, men and women were not wearing the bitterness of their sleeves - or people who historically developed in the trunk of a barbarism “Jim Crow” system to attack the fabric and the essence of family life. The idea was simple, that the readers to reflect on the very essence of what is a crime against humanity - an experience than simply too true for those who live. Compilation of the series participates courage of the people with stories to tell. They were tried humiliating stories that are not easy to share, stories today, which is difficult for children to understand. Stan, in his heart, and the photos, I think, something deeper captured. I published these photographs and text on the blog. |