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Picturing pain
Empathy is not always an easy emotion to bring out in viewers but this picture from Farzana Hossen of a woman reacting to a fire that destroyed her home in a slum in Bangladesh certainly brought it out in me. Farzana’s use of black and white seems to emphasis the woman’s face and grief.
Where there’s smoke…
Your View contributor Ross Beckley shot this photo of a firefighter from the New South Wales Fire Brigades during a recent fire in Australia.
Beckley was at the scene to capture the firefighters in action. Instead of a dramatic news photo of a fire rescue, he captured the ethereal feel of the smoke surrounding a firefighter. The framing of the subject allows the smoke to be a dominant element in the composition.
Many thanks for the kind words on my above image.
Cheers
Ross Beckley
Where there’s smoke
We took a liking to this contribution from Jashim Salam, of children watching from above as firefighters work to extinguish a blaze in the Bangladeshi city of Chittagong. The fire’s smoke, normally a tad frightening, manages to seem almost whimsical as it drifts up past the kids and into the shafts of light.
When some people perceive a remote danger, they never know it is coming closer than ever before it is too late to escape. In mid-1980s, residents of the top floor building in Hong Kong were overlooking from balcony with curiousity what they saw a fire that broke out from a ground shop but chose to stay put.
The fire spiralled up inside the lift shaft to the 16th top floor where lift doors left open for repair, burning everything to ashes, including the onlooking residents. It was the only place where casualties lie.
A burning issue
Dzenan Krijestorac captured the emotion on this woman’s face and the emotion of the situation as a Roma community in Sarajevo set their homes on fire after being forced to move.
“Why can’t people just get along?” When will we mature to the point that we can tolerate other people even if they are different from us?
Smoke rising
Edward Echwalu sent in a series of pictures on a fire in a market place in Kampala, Uganda, this week and managed to send a complete package ensuring he had all the views necessary to illustrate the story.
First he had the overview.
Then he had the scene setter, complete with smoke rising from the ashes.
Then he had the drama of police firing tear gas.
This photo essay succeeds on another more important human level – it managed to evoke very strong emotions in me as a viewer. Great work!
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The Wall
That picture shows the harsh reality of how we live in the world. This woman and that conditions under which she lives would never have entered the minds of most Westerners. Out of sight, out of mind.While most of us are trying to figure out how to load the Christmas tree with stuff, the woman in the picture might be trying to figure out how she’s going to eat today.It’s not that we should feel guilty for living well. But do have a responsibility to be appreciative of what we have, and also to help those in need how ever we can.That picture represents how the vast majority of people live in this world. It is a reminder that we in the West need to use what we have to solve the problems that cause this woman and others like her to live the way they do. We have the power. But we don’t have the will.And unless we develop the will and act upon it, we will loose the power we have as well.http://www.theendofpoverty.com/We are not animals and we should not be content to live as such.