Hammock Boy. Cambodia 2006.

This boy lives alongside his four siblings and mother on the street in the capital of

Cambodia, Phnom Penh. As he is the youngest he gets to sleep in this makeshift hammock

while the others take shelter in the doorway.

Nice shot Miles.

 

Are you in Cambo now? I've been in Battambang for the past 6 weeks or so.

This is a perfect photo, IMHO. It shows a certain roughness and shabbiness of the surroundings, but the smile on the boy's face shines so beatifically. The diagonal hammock cuts right across the vertical lines to draw your eye straight to the little boy, and the lack of competing colors keeps your eyes glued there. - Evelyn

fantastic

I like it, congrulations! :)

Can't believe my eyes. A masterpiece.

Thanks so much everybody for your very kind compliments above. Ian I'm not in Cambodia now but I'll let you know next time - it would be good to meet up.

 

Regards, Miles.

Someone rated this 4/4? C'mon...Should be on the front page of PN. Really tells me a story, Very powerful.

Your sense of composition is truly amazing. I couldn't imagine that boy in any other place of the frame.

Thanks so much. There is indeed a powerful story behind this photo and I felt a great deal of empathy for the family and their situation when I took this. It puts our Western lives into perspective.

 

Regards, Miles.

Praise from you is greatly appreciated as I have admired and respected your excellent work for some time now. Thank you.

 

Regards, Miles.

Great! Cute little guy, great textures and lines, well seen. Love it!

Some of Photo.net's finest commentators have already commented on wonderful photo's amazing lines and subject, so it would redundant (hence the suggestion I use dittos) for me to repeat what has already been said.

 

This is indeed the masterpiece it has been suggested; if I could turn out such work I would be more than proud, and can only envy your well-honed eye.

 

I am particularly impressed by how the lines of the back of the hammock cross over at the boy showing the hammock back to his body, then the front past his body for entirely different textures/change of texture, which brings complexity of texture to a photo that might have suffered without it, for a nice twist on the photo's symmetry.

 

Well done.

 

John (Crosley)

Superb. Nothing to add to the preceding comments. Every element of this is wonderful, and, as you say, the story behind it fills it with significance.

How beautiful! Perfect work Miles!

Thanks so much for the overwhelming praise. I think I was just lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time.

 

Regards, Miles.

Wonderful tones, but lack of camera/media info. Can you fill us in?

 

Addendum: Thanks for the (private) response. JSC

 

John (Crosley)

Stunning, a photograph we'd all aspire to take.

7/7

Thanks so much Mark, that is very kind.

 

When I turned the corner and saw this scene I knew immediately I was about to get the best shot of the trip even before I had actually raised the camera to my eye.

 

Thanks for stopping by,

 

Regards,

 

Miles.

Very powerful image... another fine photo, Miles

wonderful, cheers Jana