Pakistan: A Tent for Eleven
Why am I here...a small mountain village in Pakistan? Why have I spent my time, my money, rejected the relative safety of home, and embraced inconveniences as necessary adventures? Why am I in this place, photographing a man, a woman and their nine children outside a tent where they have lived through the winter after a devastating earthquake? Will my portrait of his family give him a new home? What does he get out of this? I left him with an embrace and a meeting of the eyes. May I not forget. May we all never forget.
(24-105mm IS lens @24mm, 1/100 sec, f5.6 ISO800
posted by Gary at 11/26/2006 03:32:00 PM
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I think for a photographer, you never forget, all the different places and people you meet. By taking the picture it becomes apart of you in some way, whether it continues to pull at your heart or replays in your mind. Some times I also wonder why was I there, why did I take the photo? I guess their story meant enough to me to capture it and share with others. There are times that I feel like I didn't help them in anyway, but I did remember them and didn't forget them and what they have been through.
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