On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks, Paul. Many years ago I posted a photo of a family that I stayed
> with in Honduras:
>
> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/73490477
>
> I got an e-mail from a woman photographer in Switzerland who could not
> understand why I would set up such elaborate sets to photograph the family.
> She absolutely refused to believe that anybody lived that way in the 20th
> century. What most people don't understand, and what I try to show in my
> photos, is that they are happy, loving families without any possessions or
> material wealth. If they only have access to good medical care when they
> need it, the rest doesn't matter so much.
>
> Tina
>
>
And in a way, I admire that. Although, I really enjoy making techology
work and keeping in touch via email and Facebook and such... I guess that's
why I really have a hard time imagining myself living that way. But then
again, they've never known anything else, so they don't know what they
haven't seen.
--
Paul Braun
Music Junkie
"Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." -- Harlan Howard
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