Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:00 AM 8/4/01 +0200, you wrote: >You don't have to go to the third world to understand (or better >understand). Poverty is right at your front door. But I/we still have to >dare to look at it. It is easier to look at "poverty" in the third world, >it's probably part of the cliché. Tarek - I work with the poor here in South Carolina and in Central America and Africa. There is no comparison. The very poorest here would be considered middle-class (in material wealth) in parts of Central America and Africa. >What I understood in the third world was my/our own poverty of the soul. This is very true. Many of those without any material wealth are wealthy in family and faith in a way that awes the members of the medical brigades that I take to developing countries. They always come home with a new faith in humanity and an understanding that they have gained more than they have given. >As to be culturly biased when making/taking pictures... It's the intention >that counts. What is your intention when you go ahead and take pictures of >poor people? And back to photography. My intention is to document daily lives and show that the people of the world are more alike than we are different. I need to add a section to my web site of photographs of people in South Carolina - - when I get a round tuit! Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com