I wanted to capture the faces of the people I pass on the street, in the markets to give you a glimpse at this vast and different culture. I began snapping picture of people primarily trying to capture children with their parents. The little girl above never smiled the entire time our eyes met. She just had an innocent but blank look on her face. The look of today is just another day and I hope I make it without anything bad happening. There is a side of poverty I have seen in pictures but never before have I seen the poverty that is prevalent in India. With 1.17 billion people living here the law of numbers creates an impoverished population that is greater than that of the entire United States.
You don't always see it in the form of begging, it comes in the form of purchasing items from young teens and children selling trinkets and other items with little value so they will have enough money for their next meal. I have seen homeless people before in some on the major US cities, but I can honestly say I have never seen family after family with husband wife and children homeless. I am but one person but I can say that more than one child received a Cliff Bar from this soft hearted Georgia Boy.
The family above is probably my favorite picture of the trip thus far. Simple.
2 comments:
Wonderful pictures! Going to a place with extreme poverty HAS to change you....as you said, it's one thing to see it in pictures, but when you're immersed in it it, you 'understand' on a different level.
I wanted to share a story that I thought you would appreciate....
There once was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work. One day he was walking along the shore, as he looked down the beach, he saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself to think of someone who would dance to the day and he began to walk faster to catch up.
As he got closer, he saw that it was a young man, and the young man wasn’t dancing, but instead he was reaching down to the shore, picking up something, and very gently throwing it into the ocean.
He called out,
“Good morning, what are you doing?”
The young man paused, looked up and replied,
“Throwing starfish into the ocean.”
“I guess I should have asked;
WHY are you throwing starfish in the ocean?”
“The sun is up and the tide is going out.
And if I don’t throw them then they’ll die.”
“But, young man, don’t you realize that there are
miles and miles of beach and starfish all along it.
You can’t possibly make a difference!”
The young man listened politely, then bent down,
picked up another starfish and threw it into the sea,
past the breaking waves and said,
“It made a difference for that one.”
-Author Unknown-
Thanks for sharing this journey with us! And for now.....
GGGOOOOO DAWGS! Sic Em!!!!!
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