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A decent record. Quite frankly, what it depicts is a complete lack of even basic health and safety enforcement in some countries. Health and safety legislation was a bug bear in my last few years at work, but this is at the other extrem1 - no safety clothing and tiny children ion site. Not good.
Paul
Paul
And that's life in much of the world...
To a large extent, critique is superfluous with a picture like htis. As long as you get the basics reasonably right, the content speaks for itself. Being a clever photographer just gets in the way of the message, which is that this woman has a life that is harder than I can conceive.
You show the context, the place where the mother works in the background. Both mother and child are barefoot, where Westerners would be wearing steel toecapped boots, hard hats and hi-vis jackets.
Technically, you know a lot more now than you did 9 years ago, when you took the picture, so I'll leave that area alone.
To a large extent, critique is superfluous with a picture like htis. As long as you get the basics reasonably right, the content speaks for itself. Being a clever photographer just gets in the way of the message, which is that this woman has a life that is harder than I can conceive.
You show the context, the place where the mother works in the background. Both mother and child are barefoot, where Westerners would be wearing steel toecapped boots, hard hats and hi-vis jackets.
Technically, you know a lot more now than you did 9 years ago, when you took the picture, so I'll leave that area alone.
You are showing us a slice of life that we can only look at in surprise. We feel for both the mother and the child alike.
The fact that the image evokes a response from the viewer is good, even if the situation depicted is not.
This is what reportage is about, telling the story and getting a response. In that respect, you have done well with this picture.
It also makes us ask a lot of questions. For instance, " Does anybody look after the child when the mother is working?", "Are there lots of other children who play at the quarry?", "Do they actually have some lunch in the Lunch Break?", etc.
Pamela.
The fact that the image evokes a response from the viewer is good, even if the situation depicted is not.
This is what reportage is about, telling the story and getting a response. In that respect, you have done well with this picture.
It also makes us ask a lot of questions. For instance, " Does anybody look after the child when the mother is working?", "Are there lots of other children who play at the quarry?", "Do they actually have some lunch in the Lunch Break?", etc.
Pamela.
