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VictorInDelhi β Boy who Lives Under Bridge
Published: 2006-05-04 10:08:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 502; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 16
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He and his family are rag-pickers - they go through the garbage thrown away in Delhi, and sell the plastic and metal that they can salvage for money so that they can eat. The whole family lives with no shelter on a concrete slab next to a busy main railway line under a flyover, together with lots of other families.This is a grab shot in bad light with no flash converted to b&w in Photoshop.
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motive images like this encourage Development aid. For example, I have been raising money myself for the literacy program, and photos like this make a huge contribution to getting people to invest.
i am very very happy to read this comment of yours.
i don't like to see lots of photos of homeless hungry people
from people who are not at least helping them as much as they can.
i'm glad to hear you are.
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Thank you for your comment, and thank you for taking real raw unposed shots.
There's a lot of extremely talented people on this site who limit their creativity by having their photos be mostly of themselves or their friends or professional models in cute poses, and they miss out on real life. Superb photos, great to hang on the wall, but don't have a lasting impact. Is this because Photography schools are teaching them bad habits, or because street life has almost disappeared in the West?
Oh dear, there I go again, do pardon my rhetorical meanderings.....
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Some how I donβt appreciate kids represented like this
Even if it is truth.
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Parag,
1. He's living a much better quality of life than the kids in Maharashtra and other places who die every year in huge quantities from malnutrition.
2. Emotive images like this encourage Development aid. For example, I have been raising money myself for the literacy program, and photos like this make a huge contribution to getting people to invest.
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I am sorry but I have really low threshold against any kind of pain
And that image gives a lot of emotions. And itβs difficult for me to look at that image.
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OK, I understand.
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powerful image. must be at that age where they shave their heads. only real criticism is the ear being lopped off on the right. other than that, looks great.
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He will have had his head shaved probably because his father just died. All the more reason why he's got to earn money now.
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