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Published: 2005-08-26 06:30:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 19382; Favourites: 259; Downloads: 2313
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Bendungan HilirJakarta, Indonesia
If you've seen James Nachtwey's documentary "War Photographer", this place looks vaguely familiar. The main character of the documentary's setting in Indonesia was a one-armed one-legged man, who was hit by a train. (We'd had the chance to see him). There are more people. Able-bodied people. And they all live there, between and around the train tracks. Possessions nothing more than other people's trash.
What was most fascinating to me was these people's appreciation of what they have.
That's our problem these days. We take everything for granted. Cellphones, cars, tv, iPods, toilets, showers, parents.
These people didn't own much. They did, however, own the most important thing of all, family.
Although you could see that these people here could be much better off, they still put on a smile for us.
I definitely respect people like this a lot more than others.
I'll be honest, I take things for granted all the time. Walking around through this part of town made me realize that I need to enjoy and appreciate what I have even more.
You should too.
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Hey I was wondering if you would allow me to use this piece in a collage I am making??
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this is an amazing picture, very powerful, heart felting..keep it up!
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this is an amazing shot.
i was wondering if i would be able to use this shot as a part of my VCE media final. i am making a photo film-clip to the song what it's like by everlast. most of the shots are my own but for a bridge i want to use source photos. i was hoping to use this photo for the lyric 'i've seen the good side of bad'
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alot to admire here, and feel sad for. amazing image.
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Thank you for the features!
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oh my! this is such a warm filled photograph! i just adore this very much! it has such burst of emotion and beauty to it. I simply love the angle of the shot and how these people have a natural yet fullfilling feeling. The black and white gives it such a brilliant touch. I read every word of ur description and they were just very touching. I agree with you completley. You too made me realise how we should appriciate what we have now. Lovely work!
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"if it`s used well,photography can be the antidote to war"
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yeah!!,hell of a movie!!
and he does it old fashion way:B&W film
if i`m not wrong,it`s the "Sumarnos"
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You know.. I just got the DVD last nite..
Get back on DA, type "James Nachtwey", then
this picture came up ...
Now that's what I called totality in photographer...
Got a new hero now
And your Deviation my friend...
deserve a DD indeed
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As soon as I saw that part in the film I remembered these
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it's an amazing film isn't it?
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Probably the best doco I've seen in a long while. Everything about it is brilliantly executed.
And he uses arvo part... brilliant composer. Frei has awesome taste as well as knowing how to make a doco. Bloddy amazing
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woww.. nice concept! really loved ur comments! in Palmerah?
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I really appreciate your way of thinking, this picture really tell us that even if we have the money, health, materials, we really lost the essential... family...
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We don't necessarily lose it. We just take it for granted.
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interesting setting, great portrait. good job, man.
Congrats on the DD... 
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The fact that people harbor the potential to be GENUINELY happy without the material possessions that tend to corrupt man is humbling to say the least. This is an absolutely wonderful shot with a wonderful description to boot. Brilliant.
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It just proves how materialistic society is.
Cheers
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wow great job congrats on the daily devation!
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memang ramai yang take for granted kehidupan yang mereka ada, termasuklah saya sendiri ... Thanks for the reminder
Love, peace, empathy
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Emang org2 di seluruh dunia ga tau apakah terjadi di bangsa kayak indonesia.
Terima kasih
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This really hits you in the heart... its a wonderful picture and your words are quiet the toucher... it really makes you think. I love this it so much... forgive me for the few words of praise I can give though...
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My motivation is to make people think
Thank you.
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I ove how you have captured the family at a slanted angle on the railroad tracks.
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Your welcome and if you can check out my gallery.
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Ths slant removes focus from the perspective of the background, and places ir on the people. I like this, by the way
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Thanks, mate.
Converging lines
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Ever so beautiful and touching. Thank you for sharing this; it's so needed, to be taken out of our little bubbles to see what life is REALLY like for some people.
(the family looks so.. clean! 
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Just because they're poor doesn't mean they don't take care of themselves.
Cheers
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very moving hun. the photo and the words together are powerful.
good heart you have.
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Thank you.
I try my hardest to inform the world with my photography.
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This photo reminds me of when I went to Mexico and met the orphans there...
It makes me sad, but it also brings up "better" feelings.
Wonderful.
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Places like this are all over the world.
Cheers
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This reminds me of the orphans in Mexico for some reason...
But it's a very beautiful photo. Wonderful.
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It's a sad photograph...
Fav but that isn't good word
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