This photo was taken by Sebastiao Salgado, a Brazilian photographer who has dedicated his work to helping those people who are not in a situation to help themselves. Salgado brings strong emotions to his audience by documenting the rarely seen conditions of his subjects. Through the next 4 months I will explore the lives and hardships of these refugees through Salado’s work. The purpose is to try and use a combination of rhetoric and photography to help you, the audience of this blog, to connect with these people. We have been blessed to have rhetoric which is in and of itself a form of art. With this great blessing comes also the responsibility to help people by using it for good. By making these topics personal to myself and others, it is my hope that we can strengthen our efforts to help refugees escape the perilous hardships that they face.
Salgado, Sebastiao. Photograph. Migrations: Humanity in Transition. Aperture Foundation, Inc.: New York, 2000. 155.
I liked how you suggest that we should make this a personal matter. I think you're right in that when something is personal or close to us, it weighs more heavily on our mind and our thoughts. Thus giving us more incentive to do something, to act and not just watch. We've all seen hundreds of photographs that we just pass by quickly. But if we really take the time to take it in and think about how blessed we really are to live in the circumstances that we live in, it compels us to stop and take part. Even if it is a very small part.
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