it is life

Espectacular trabajo, belleza en la luz y composicion,,,saludos,

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I agree with the other posters: this is a great and emotional picture. But I a have a bit of a problem seeing the photo of this less fortunate young man together in your portofolio with the more humourous pictures. I think it deserves a more serene context or folder on it's own, or with pictures telling a related story.

Maarten

makes one thinking after seeing image like this one

photography

Incredible, sometimes we forget ..... how lucky we are when we feel fit and healthy... Thank You for reminding.

 

I agree with the previous comment - THIS IS PHOTOGRAPHY, cheers Jana

 

May god bless him and all of us!

We forget how lucky we are, these people are true angles!

Crisi

"God's Angel" how we treat them and the lessons they teach us. I like the perspective on this one. I like the way it changes as I change. A beautiful moving image. We are blessed.

Thanx for sharing . This is touching.

a dramatic theme, but I?d like to thank you for opening the door a little for us to pay him and others attention and respect.

This image challenges me, and I feel it is perfect in the way it handles the subject. It is so evocative and forceful it was as if time stopped when I opened it, and it took a while before I could compose myself to post. All the originality ratings that give popularity to subject matter we like are exposed by a shot like this as fluff. This is truly original, and aesthetically superb. 7/7

sometimes it is hard to rate. But nothing is as hard as life itself...

congratulations for this brave shot... maybe it helps some people to think about their own life in a different way... regards alex...

Tony,

 

Is this person someone you know? I may be wrong but I think I see someone keenly aware of the camera and someone not unhappy at all about having his picture taken. Can you shed some light on your relationship to this individual?

 

I want to throw out this preachy tidbit. I know a seventy six year old mother who has cared for her son who has never walked and is now forty six years bedridden. He was "supposed to die" when he was three or four years old according to his attending physician decades ago. If his picture was posted here and his mother caught wind of the "how sad" comments, she would be outraged. Her son knows love. To know love is not sad.

 

I know that I personally have to be very careful of what I project onto other human beings. To say "how sad", without knowing the man in the photo, could easily put closesure on the subject and end the possibility of engagement. "How sad" is often the easy way out.

 

Thanks Tony.

 

Peter

I guess we as public are obsessed with other people's fame and misfortune.

Contains everything and gives you possibility to think - great shot

but a picture does speak thousand words.

I think it degrading and disrespectful that you would post him here. Just my opinion.

This is indeed a brave shot not only by you but also the other person who is the subject. You said ?Born like that, he lives as a plant, till the end? how far from the truth you are. Because of his deformities we are forced to see in His life and also to love this life because it is life. A life that seems to be against nature but because of his suffering we can be linked to the suffering of Christ and therefore we are lead to a true compassion. To love him and to care for him as long as his natural life is. Life is complex and diverse, but human life no matter how it looks is a gift from God and therefore should be respected. The subject in this picture is a person not a plant. We would do well to know this. That is why we are brought to compassion and love for out fellow man. God Bless you Tony for showing this picture, The shot itself is well taken good work

Peter

 

Dear Tony

Thank you for sharing this young guy with us showing us that life treats us humans very differently. I hope that he?s being taken good care of and has family around that loves him because love and security is the base for a decent life.

When people talk about dignity and the right to live, they seem to forget that they are indeed not in in this fellow?s shoes. They have no idea what it means to be severely handicapped, to depend on the charity/ good will from other people all life, being helpless needing aid with everything even the basics that we take for granted, the humiliation, the looks from strangers, the frustration, the lack of ability to participate in life, the boundaries etc.

I would never consider twice having an abortion if being pregnant with a severely handicapped child for the sake of the child and the family and in the last end society. I know because I have two braindamaged non-verbal sisters living at home. It?s a lifelong sorrow and burden regarding so many different aspects.

Good that you posted this. I?ve considered posting images like this myself, but I just don?t have the strength to take such photos.

Best wishes

Annemette

 

Thank you for this photo.

Raises many difficult questions - that's why people shy away from such issues. I do not think it is that they do not care but rather are at a loss as to the best solution for this kind of problem. No one with any sort of a soul could be unmoved by this. Is genetic screening the future answer? Do we want a perfect world? Is this the price we are prepared to pay for the imperfections which every now and then throw up a Ghandi or a Newton or a porr soul like this?

 

I think, if possible, we should find out what he wants. If he wants and end, then allow him it in dignity. If he wants a life, then help him achieve it.

 

Initially, from the thumbnail it looked like a computer chip to me with its wires from the centre chip. It's a sort of irony really - there we are all consumed by the latest technologies allowing us to forget reality whilst there in its midst is our own insistent truth.

Such wonderful work! The photo itself is amazing - I love how the bars bring my focus to the center of the photo. Fantastic perspective. The subject is even more amazing - I am happy you found it within yourself to share this with us. I am also joyfully surprised that the majority of the comments have a positive tone - it shows we are evolving.

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Paul Fusco's related work.

What a question and photograph. Great emotional shot. We need more of these shown.

My God!

Indefinable and terrible! But the shot is good!