Living on the edge.

Your title is definitely fitting and you did an excellent job of telling a story. Where were these photos taken?

Powerful shots, good work, sad world .....
Armando

Always Looking wrote in post #16051034
Your title is definitely fitting and you did an excellent job of telling a story. Where were these photos taken?

Taken in a place called Toul Kok, Cambodia, South East Asia.

FstopMiami123 wrote in post #16051085
Powerful shots, good work, sad world .....
Armando

You are right it can be a sad world for some people.

Excellent story
What is sad is, they don't have money or jobs or anything productive to do, except make more babies, which adds to their own poverty.

Fester wrote in post #16052004
What is sad is, they don't have money or jobs or anything productive to do, except make more babies, which adds to their own poverty.

That didn't come out right, although you probably didn't mean it.

These people are working as hard as they can to make ends meet. I grew up in a third world country where many people around me were living in desperate poverty. They are *extremely* productive and resourceful people. They work from morning to night doing back breaking labor, basically for the same things you and I work for - to have a reasonable existence and raise their families to perhaps have a better chance than they did. The clever ways in which people made a living is something to be seen to believed, however undesirable we may consider it.

What is lacking for most of these people is the lack of access to education, clean water, reasonable medical treatment, sanitary living conditions and yes, family planning. They are the disenfranchised among us, the people who have no voice among government or the authorities. It is said that a country should be judged by how well it treats its most disenfranchised people and in this regard, many many countries fail miserably.

Very well said Scrumhalf !!

Your photos reminded me of a video I saw a long time ago similar to this one. I think people are just trying to make do with what they've got. Looks can be deceiving.

I too came from a third world country. When I came to Canada, I never thought I was poor until kids my own age start pointing it out. All along I thought I was a normal kid .

BTW I liked the 3rd photo sort of telling me the affluent looking down on the less fortunate (only my interpretation).

These people work very hard to make ends meet, they are poor in worldly goods but not poor in spirit. The norm (IMO) is defined by the situation everybody finds themselves in. If everyone is in the same situation then this is their norm only when they are compared with others within their society does their situation of poverty become apparent to them. You are right about the third image, they have spent million of dollars building the skyscraper that looks down on this poverty, so sad

Excellent set, very powerful.

Excellent stuff. Please make sure you post a link when your book is out so I can buy a copy.