Jerome Marot
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We?These are good people you photograph. In what way could we have done better by them?
Hi, Asher,
We?
We, Doug and Asher?
We, America?
We, "Western" civilization?
We, industrialized society?
We, the World?
Not we: The government of that nation?
Best regards,
Doug
Hello Jerome,
I have followed your work for a long time. I know your are a talented observor both of what's around you and also from your avid appetite for self learning.
I like it when photography holds up a candle to ourselves and the planet over which we claim dominion.
I dont know why, but I expected that the riches of modernity might have already infiltrated even the smallest villages. Beangladesh I understand. Many places have pracitcally no resources except the fish to catch in the ocean. In Africa, however, the land is fertile, supports animal husbandry and diverse crops. There are abundant raw materials and industires were started half a century ago.
When I was there, in the West coast, Central Afrcia and South Africa and Mozambique, as it was then, there were a lot of villages still with tribal law, mud huts, bare breasted women and homes made of mud with one tap as running water as the only modern amenity.
When missionaries inoculated an area with their brand of the Trinity, it meant villagers could no longer marry accors religious boundaries created by competing Churches. Children wee educated just sufficiently to turn away from the values and authority of the elders and drifted to the towns to become clerks and many ended up as marginals left just to drink and odd jobs and crime. The girls to even at times, selling their bodies.
Still, over the years, I had hoped that the beneifts of secondart education and fine new universities would have changed the situation. Your pictures show me that I was somewhat delusional. This should not be.
These are good people you photograph. In what way could we have done better by them?
Asher
I dont know why, but I expected that the riches of modernity might have already infiltrated even the smallest villages.
I am impressed by the uniformity of the exposures, indoors or out doors the exposures are pretty well the same.
There must be a great story behind this.