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At 03:01 PM 4/3/2008, you wrote:
>  It's just that I don't the see the way
>we could help homeless and impoverished ones by just taking photographs or
>at least not the way we usually do.
>
>regards
>
>Pablo

Would it be better to deliberately not photograph them and pretend 
they don't exist?  Or, because you say, "general public still refuses 
to see "ugly things"" , maybe we need to keep confronting the general 
public with what actually exists so they can't refuse to see it?  I 
know for a fact that the agencies I have worked with in Central 
America and in Africa have made a definite difference in the lives of 
thousands of people who now have clean water, dry houses, healthy 
livestock, and children who may live to grow up since they've been 
inoculated against preventable diseases.  Without making people aware 
of conditions in those countries, the agencies would never have been 
able to raise the money needed to make a difference.

Tina