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Title
Tough As It Gets
Artist
Steve Harrington
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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A beggar in Srinagar, India. Taken with a short focal length lens, this is the most difficult image I have ever taken. I experienced what all travelers to India inevitably confront: unbelievable poverty and a sense of helplessness. I have never seen the world in the same way since.
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March 4th, 2011
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Viewed 246 Times - Last Visitor from New York, NY on 03/31/2024 at 5:44 AM
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Bolton, ON - Canada
Like many, I had great difficulty confronting my emotions when experiencing such extreme poverty and need. To be honest, I feared the beggars, I think, and I am not sure why. In part it is connected to our Western taboo against staring at suffering. Like feeling a twinge of guilt when we look at a bad car accident. Eventually I realized that I was treating them as objects of fear, rather than humans. I finally changed that when I forced myself to sit on the sidewalk with a legless Calcutta beggar who had been hounding me. Although we shared no common language, we "communicated" for half an hour. It felt right for both of us: Just two guys sharing part of our long journeys through a big, tough world.
Bolton, ON - Canada
You are very kind, Juls! I wish I could change the photo and his life. My skills have grown since, but so have the number of people facing his plight.
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