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Oh, Phnom Penh
Published: 2007-11-02 16:22:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 5984; Favourites: 175; Downloads: 0
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thank you, this photo means alot to me
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This is amazing. Really gets you thinking. Great work!
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this picture has such a duality, not sure if you intended it. but that child is so happy and content in that moment. And at the same time I'm sure it goes to bed hungry. Sometimes our surrounds delude out perception of comfort.
thank you for this.
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Welcome to earth, little girl. I grew up in places like that -- places middle class westerners who like to call themselves civilized like to forget about. They like to look at pictures, but the second the emotion wears off they go back to their extravagant lives.
This picture makes me angry as much as it makes me sad. In reality, this picture represents a huge portion of the world. To everyone who sees this comment, don't sit around and feel sorry for the little girl -- go to that place filled with trash, and help people.
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I am not one of those white people who gets all teary and moves on.
My photography connects me in a great way to the condition of the world and I use my photography to motivate others to help out.
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Thank you...there's never enough people like you and me.
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this is really influencial.
and i get it because where i live, there isnt this much rubbish but it is still polluted.
great shot though.
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I am hoping to influence and inspire people to make change through my work
thank you
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It's a captivating photo. It makes me want to reach out and help. However I see hope in the little girl's smile. Childhood continues through all odds.
Your photo makes me appreciate what I have and the opportunities in America or Canada and how selfish I have been. Also how materialistic I can be. I came to the US from Cambodia when I was one years old, so your photo hits a nerve. Keep up the good work.
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Their isn't much you can do about who you have been made up to be in America, society contains us.
But we can all help to fix the way those in need live.
Thanks for all the great comments and such!
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She doesn't look sick, she has jewelry, the cloths are dirty but not torn.
The trash gives a sad image but aside from the dirty cloths it appears that she doesn't belong there.
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Well she is there, and she lives there.
Beauty always shines through the grime.
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I really don't know what to say.
I completely agree with 'marcie4real'.
Her smile makes me smile. And feel very grateful.
Incredible how one picture can make you feel so many different emotions...all at the same time.
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Im glad that my photo makes u feel that way!
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I know its really heartbreaking
This is right smack in the center of Cambodia's capital city, Phnom Penh.
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yeah...
i know coz there are places here are also just like that in the photo...
so i know the feeling....
its hard to see them like that....
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This is all trash?
The innocence of this child just cuts through all the sadness of the littered earth.
Wonderful work.
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My heart didn't drop..
It's a nice piece, the only thing that bothers me about this picture is that new car back there with the car cover... That seems extremely out of place... The tires even look polished. With all that dirt, the tires look like they're brand new.
Anyways, again, nice photo.
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except for the fact that it doesnt belong to the childs family.. phnom penh is a deeply contrasting city with poverty to the extreme against a strong backdrop of extreme wealth.
i think that the random flashy car in the background helps portray this contrast, and you really should have seen this girls 'home' which was a pile of collected garbage and some more grubby ppl, right beside a nice home on a main road.
my heart really did drop..
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Well I didn't put it there?
Maybe it just goes to show that there are still rich people here and money in Phnom Penh, and yet children like her go unnoticed.
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wow i know this comment was posted liked 7 months ago, but i have been traveling haha sorry
thank you so much, you just brightened my day with your reply to my photo.
i am really glad i could share it with you and it had an impact on you that day
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When I saw the title of the photo (Oh, Phnom Penh) in my messages... I remembered it clearly, instantly. Without even looking at the photo I knew what it is. Thanks again
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I'm tired of seeing comments about how people are so shallow for wanting and having the things that we do.
Did you not sit on a $900+ computer to look at this, and then use both the computer and the Internet, which also costs, to comment on it?
This picture makes me feel thankful to have these amenities. The child is smiling because she knows nothing else, because she has no ability to glimpse into what we have. If she were able to, she would also covet these things the same as we do. It does not make us superficial to want or have luxury; it makes us human.
Unlike the child, however, we have the ability to use photos to peek into such alien worlds as these, and from them we can draw inspiration, humility, and a deep gratitude for that which we are able to love and appreciate.
Great use of emotion here.
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ahhh i learned about cambodia..... phnom phen is the capital right? ooh i'm trying to remember more. there was a genocide there wasn't there??..... wow i can't believe i don't remember this..... something really tragic happened.... ?
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The teddy bear and the fancy car in the background make me wonder. Amazing how such poverty can live alongside such wealth and furthermore, how untouched she is by the materialism and superficial of our culture. Cheers on the great foto mate.
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That is one of those photos that comes along once in a blue moon. love it
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This reminds me of the little kids in Guatemala when I went there.
So sad.
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that make me so sad, i think i will go buy another iPod or a playstation.
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i re read the comment now, it wasnt aimed at you.
i am in bleeding heart mode lately and your photo really hit me. makes me laugh to hear people in n america bitching about their lives and here's this poor kid covered in trash in a large part cause we have all the riches. sorry if that didnt come through.
great photo
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thankyou! but sorry...
i didn't take this photo
but your welcome anyway
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This breaks my heart to see this child living in these unsanitary conditions
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You know what would make this image really stand out? Here's a manipulation idea. Make the young child black and white, and increase the brightness and saturation on everything else.
None the less, a frightening capture of the atrocities that the first world countries allow to happen every day. Well worth the look, and definitely worth a DD.
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i think your idea of a photomanip would just make my photo tacky, thank you for the idea, but this shot falls under photojournalism and not p
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fuck, sorry i didnt mean to post that.. i take it back
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