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[pkolodny at fibertel.com.ar (Pablo Kolodny)]

Hi Tina, 

I firstly must say you're a honest woman so all of your photographs seems to
do the job and beyond.
I don't mean though, this is a very complex issue to have me writing in
english, that it'd be better not to photograph them, the impoverished and
homeless ones. Definitely you're just right at that you're saying, no
criticisms and such stuff like that in what respects to your actions.
Actually I'm glad to hear that you've actually helped some of those, maybe
we've need to build sort of photographers army to fight poverty so the whole
human beings in the world could live with dignity which in turn I can't feel
about that because so many people are still under the line.

If and only if the case is about taking photographs of them under certain
programs much much better, for them and us. You included, of course.

It's the lack of real programs, those coming up from the UN just do fail and
did fail for so many years, what it makes me mad. It's not photographing or
not photographing them.

Maybe the thing is just as what you come up with, only adding our grain of
sand to make up the whole background. Though I'm not sure yet.

We, as part of humanity, have been failing in that of helping them.
And even got them worst than ever after things as globalisation and the
likes. 

And who's responsible for that to happen ? We all do, at least that's what I
think about the occidental way of life. Now even found out in the far east
too. 

The better industries are the more impoverished we can find, I think you'll
agree with this, it's just facts.

regards

Pablo


images@comporium.net wrote:

> 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

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