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Students will see Big Easy in new light

Written by DeadGirl
Monday, 13 March 2006
Kayce Ataiyero March 12, 2006 DES PLAINES -- For the last three years, a class at Oakton Community College's Des Plaines campus has given photography students an opportunity to travel to New Orleans to capture the city's story in still images. The field study is planned for May 20 through May 28, but this year, the trip is expected to give students a much different experience as they train their cameras on Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. "As photographers, we understand that photography can be part of the world of illusion," said Judy Langston, professor of art and graphic design at Oakton. "Part of the trip is seeing what has changed and what hasn't changed. We will see what is actually happening down there." Langston teaches a course called "The Architecture and Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Photographic Journey." It is designed to give film and digital photography students an extended opportunity to photograph historic New Orleans locations, including the French Quarter and St. Louis Cemetery. As part of this year's trip, students will return to sites photographed by previous classes and compare them with images taken after Hurricane Katrina. "Up here, we have seen lots of sad pictures with lots of unfortunate people, but we might find that there are places that did not get as much damage but that still have a story that needs to be told," she said. "There are people who were affected but who rose up and continued to move on, and we want to tell that story too." As part of the project, photographs of pre-Katrina New Orleans taken on previous field studies will be sold at a benefit sale from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. March 23 at Oakton. Proceeds from the sale will be donated to Katrina relief efforts. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-0603120003mar12,1,4102238.story?coll=chi-newslocalchicago-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

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Taphophilia?

taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries