I spent half of my time working for NGO's in the USA and half in Central America. I have many photos of Meals on Wheels deliveries, Habitat for Humanity, and other very worthwhile projects working with the poor in the USA; however, every time I tried to stay with a poor family in the USA to photograph their lives for a week, I ended up with photos of families sitting on sofas, eating junk food and ordering things from Shopping Network on TV. The kids usually had more electronic devices than my kids did. I was able to stay with some elderly poor and got some wonderful photos but their relatives did not want the photos used to raise money for the projects that were helping their elderly poor relatives. Nobody was as poor as the families I stayed with in Honduras and nobody worked as hard.
Tina
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Randy Little <randyslittle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I understand his point. The poor of the US go very un noticed. accept we have very few poor that are as poor as people in 3rd world. But of course our poor would never know how to skin a pig either.On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
No, I was asking Jan why the photo would have been better if it had been taken in the USA. I don't get that at all.TinaOn Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Randy Little <randyslittle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:why work on it some more? its a web image the size of a post card. I was just curious if you did something to it or not.On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Why?TinaOn Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This shot would have been much more powerful if the location was Arkansas or Oklahoma or other US state.On Jan 4, 2014, at 1:41 PM, Randy Little wrote:tina there is probably not much you could have done its a great shot. but that decapitated pig (having lived and worked in similar place) makes me think that pig is decapitated and dead. Also it looks like you have done some dodging on the faces maybe? The blacks look lifted a touch and seem odd. Is that a lens flare or retouched faces?On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Andrew Davidhazy <andpph@xxxxxxx> wrote:Happy New Year!
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