Music | August 01, 2010 | 5 comments

The Artfully Pleading Hands That Speak a Language of Their Own

source: http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/photos-of-the-day-the-hands-that-speak/

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Those of us living in the Western world know relatively little about deeply severe conditions of dire poverty. Photographic sites seem to pay little attention to and look less than highly on journalistic images that depict the dismal life of those who have been born into a state of devastating poverty. Photography should educate, enlighten and help to ameliorate the plight of these unfortunate souls, but most of the time it censors it.

The photographs presented here center on the large population of mercilessly impoverished people living in India, an amazing assortment of disenfranchised humans who are begging just to eat and survive another day. If more people can view the malignant and horrible plight that so many millions of impoverished persons endure, it’s possible they eventually will be more able to offer the empathy and human support such populations require in order to survive. However, if we continue to shun painful imagery of the dreadfully appalling conditions in our world, we will continue to condone its existence and never offer the assistance that is required.

This piece is comprised of a number of dramatically striking photographs, a memorable slide show and an excellent quality HD music video.

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5 comments // The Artfully Pleading Hands That Speak a Language of Their Own

  • disembedded
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      disembedded  

    • Hi Almibry,

      Actually, all of the photographs that I used were taken by by Glenn Losack, a semi-retired NYC psychiatrist who spends most of his time traveling as a photographer. I'm pretty familiar with his work, and I selected the twenty or so photographs that I used from an extensive series of over 350 photographs (and the ones I selected were similar to the others in their physical conditions).

      One of the issues that I didn't talk about is the high rate of leprosy and other mostly untreated life-threatening diseases rampant among the impoverished in India, as well as large numbers of generally untreated cases of serious mental illness within this group. All of that adds up to the generally deathly appearance of so many in that impoverished population.

      Thanks very much for your comment.

    • 1 year ago
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  • Almibry
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      Almibry  

    • I can't help but notice how our homeless look fat in comparison... Though they could just pick out all the skinny ones to freak you out...

    • 1 year ago
  • disembedded
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      disembedded  

    • Hi eden49,

      Hey, your heart's in the right place, and that's what counts most right now. As always, thanks very much for your kind comment.

    • 1 year ago
  • eden49
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      eden49  

    • ...$30 a month to feed another human being...wish I could triple it...thank you again for another wonderful, compassionate post...

    • 1 year ago
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