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Savage City #10: 15 Minutes, Part 1
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Uploaded: 04/26/09 7:09 PM GMT
Savage City #10: 15 Minutes, Part 1
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A series within a series. This shot and next 3 all take place within a 15 minute time frame. On a rainy Monday morning, at 8AM I noticed two women on the streets. I first thought they just waiting for this store (which by the way is owned by the same person that owns this one), but then as I watched them watch traffic I realised they were prosititutes, working the morning commuter traffic. As I watched, a car pulled to the curb and one of them walked over and got in, leaving this one to watch the car pull off. Her 'thousand yard stare', the hardness of her face, the lack of emotion seems to me to sum up the hopelessness, the desperation, the tragic nature of her situation...
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::laurengary
04/26/09 7:54 PM GMT
She could be any number of women living in a rundown neighborhood, going to work in the morning ..... and she is, just not what we'd normally think of as ''work''. It can be a hard short life for these women, and brutal too.... who said it was a "victimless crime"? A grim slice of life indeed Rich.
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I've got amnesia & deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before ! ... That was Zen, but this is Tao !!! ...CLICK TO SAVE LIVES !
We all walk through life with blinkers on, don't we... photographing pretty pictures and never really seeing some things. What you are doing is photographing street crime, but there are many variations on "lives of quiet desperation"... some of them probably right next door to some of us, looking perfectly respectable. Hard to forget this shot.
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"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne,
Thassay so hard, so sharp the conquering..."
Chaucer
Food and 1 cent sign in bright red letters seem to add a rather macabre irony to this shot GBRx3. Look forward to the next three shots. Moving series.
Tick* was here
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Insure what you touch during your lifetime, is not coated with the fingerprints of apathy....Tick
Research has indicated that at least 50% of prostitutes were sexually abused as children... This woman's face reflects a lifetime of injury, and a person who probably shut down emotionally when she was very young. Very haunting image, Rich...
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"Never let your studies interfere with your education." - Pete Seeger
Read the narrations, viewed all the images in your series, Rich.
I really like the time window and concept you employed in getting the various 'messages' across to your viewers, as to the darker realities of those living their lives 'in quiet desperation'.
Which begs the question and defining of the word, 'quiet' ... to whom?
And perhaps, more appropriately ... is it 'us'? That avert our eyes? That then lead to the eventualities of these lost souls? :o|
This would make for a great journalistic piece ... and has, in my humble opinion.
I really like the time window and concept you employed in getting the various 'messages' across to your viewers, as to the darker realities of those living their lives 'in quiet desperation'.
Which begs the question and defining of the word, 'quiet' ... to whom?
And perhaps, more appropriately ... is it 'us'? That avert our eyes? That then lead to the eventualities of these lost souls? :o|
This would make for a great journalistic piece ... and has, in my humble opinion.
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"An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind." - Mahatma Gandhi