Prematurity

holding on to life, a tough start...wow how fragile we are, but yet can make a difference in teh world, right? indeed a dramatic scene.

One of the aspects of a good photo is to get your attention. This one certainly got mine.

Great shot.

....incredible emotional and touching!

This is really wonderful... I won't talk about photography aesthetics here. The image is way beyond that.

Thanks for sharing this image.

7 + 7

Emotional & heartfelt photo. Thank you for sharing.

Touching image.Anna

What an amazing representation of LIFE!! Thank YOU for sharing with us!!

Unique !

A great photojournalistic shot. Simple and yet extremely powerful. Well done!

very emotive.

never have I seen a picture in which the touch between two hands was so fraught with the silent primal urgency of Life, and the tender fragile Best in our species... wonderful.

But real, Powerful and sad.

But not sad.

The child is alive.

That's all that matters.

Wonderful shot. Terry

Your image touches me very personally. I remember so well the delicate and frightening touch of prematurity. When our son was born he was 3 months premature and weighed 850 grams. I recall that a wedding ring could be slipped over his wrist. Now, 19 years later my son is graduating from high school (honors this semester no less). The heroics performed at Children's Hospitals are truly miraculous. Thank you for capturing the spirit so well.

VERY touching picture!!!

wonderful and great

24 years ago my daughter was this tiny. This tells the story exactly as it is and with great impact. Wonderful photo

You deserve Pulitzer, World Press Photo and any others prize around this universe. Congratulations and thanks for this lesson, teacher!

You got a great eye and instinct, to make this picture talks for itself.

I strikes the innermost places of the soul. Thank you very much.

My daughter Elettra, many pictures of whom are visible in my portfolio (she is now seven) was born premature and of the same weight as this child (about 1100 grams). For some twenty days, until she was about 1800 grams, she lived in an incubator and, although we realized that she was not at all an extreme case and that many smaller children (even 600 grams at birth!) managed to survive, the strictest precautions were taken against infections. We parents were not allowed to touch her unless we wore surgical tunics, surgical gloves, and a surgical gag (?), and even so just a few minutes a day. The same applied to the nurses, of course. That's why I am a bit perplexed here. Unless in Buffalo they adopt much more relaxed criteria than in Sicily, I don't understand how anybody could touch this child's hand this way, skin to skin.

My first reaction was "This is the most powerful photo I can recall seeing." Simply stunning, the emotional content and impact are so far beyond...

 

...well, very, very good picture.

Outstanding in every way...