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Last day at Magnum Photos New York

My last day at Magnum Photos in New York is over. I cleaned up some files on which I was working on in the last six months but other than that there was not much work left for today.

I used the day to say good bye to everybody at large, to have lunch at this great authentic Dominican restaurant across the street together with the Magnum In Motion team and Magda. I smoked my last cigarettes on the fire escape with Megan, Nick, Irene and James and I was talking with Chien-Chi for quite a while after work.

Oh and I got a couple of presents! First of all I got three prints... One print each of Magda and James, two aspiring photographers and co-workers of mine and then I got another print from Pablo. Pablo is the long time printer of Magnum in New York. He worked there for about 14 years already and since I always admired his work-prints on which he writes notes, exposure times, gradiations and stuff like that he gave me a Larry Towell work print. That's freakin cool! It's actually this picture Larry Towell took in Ramallah in 2000 and it has notes written with a thick black marker all over. Very asthetic and beautifull. I am gonna frame that together with the prints I got from Magda and James to put them on my wall at home!
And it goes on. :-) I also got one "In Our Time" book, one "RFK Funeral Train" book by Paul Fusco with a personal inscription. Isn't that nice?!

I am going to miss Magnum, New York but especially all the nice and interesting people I met here. Eventually I'll come back to New York one day and I am sure that I'll see one or the other again. And who knows, if this job interview in London works out fine I am going to stay within Magnum.

After work I headed over to Brooklyn for a last drink and then back to the Bronx to finish packing. You wouldn't believe with how much (or less) stuff you can live comfortably. My last six months basically fit into two big gym bags, one camera bag and a laptop bag. Well, they have to fit in there. And that's exactly what I am going work on right now. I'll make everything fit...

My flight leaves New York tomorrow evening at 6:25pm. I am going to post another update before leaving New York City tomorrow.

Posted by Martin Fuchs on November 7, 2005 11:58 PM