Thanks for sharing this series of pics. If you want to document as much as many photojournalists has done, here are list of places where you can go and break your heart :
My favourite places from the last 20 years.
India - A lot MORE people living under platform in train stations, by the tracks, almost in every space you can think of in major cities. They have a larger population and more severe poverty issues!
Africa - Be careful though. Some places still have civil war raging. Contact the local embassy at all times when you are there. Warlords are merciless. Be very very careful, but the photos you get, wow... death and sickness and poverty. Sometimes you will feel as if god has forsaken the place.
Chang Rai, Thailand - You want to break your heart? Go visit the AIDS orphanage. If one can merely stand there and look for more than a minute without breaking down... congratulations, you are going to be successful in the business world because you have ceased to be human. Your heart has totally gone cold.
Rural Provinces of China (especially the western provinces) - I love these places. I live with some of these people. Unlike the other places, because of the space they have, they live quite happily. They learn to grow their own crops, and survive on basics. But kudos to the Chinese government too, more money is being spent these days to built water systems, sewerage systems, schools in the rural areas... although sometimes these government scholars (like many in Singapore) can be total nutcase, like sending an electric piano to the school in these rural places where they do not even have a basic power generator! I had to laugh my butt off when that arrived in one of the towns I was in... the village chief and I just sat there laughing for a good ten minutes.
and not forgetting
Philippines. Travel north, but be very careful. Kidnapping is the rage now. Get an ex military guide for added safety.
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I have a wish to travel to the Middle East (Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc) embedded in the military, but I know this is not possible unless I work for a major agency, which I am not ready to do yet. But well, it is good to dream yeah? I know of friends who have been there, and their photos are simply so amazing.
Nice pictures you have taken there, and I really appreciate the fact that you took a lot of effort to frame and compose the images that tells of the subject in relation to their environment.
Never fails to make me count my blessings in life.
For those who wants to do something about poverty... spend time to convince the really rich to share their wealth. To know more...
www.makepovertyhistory.org
