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13-NOV-2005

Remembrance 1949-2005

Honour Your Soldiers

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Rob Rosetti07-Jun-2006 20:35
Speachless! Roberto
Dougie Young29-Nov-2005 19:06
As an ex soldier I fully understand the sentiment in the title of this very moving picture Kal. It also reminds me of my trip to China and the non-stop ringing of bicycle bells coming up from the streets. :>oted Dougie
Guest 22-Nov-2005 20:03
This is very cool, Kal. :) I'd love to see this in BW. Also, I'd like to see the 2nd shot you took when he was looking up. Just curious how different a feel it gives compared to this one :)
Guest 20-Nov-2005 22:24
very moving image, i too wud like to see his smile and his eyes
Marisa Livet18-Nov-2005 10:15
I'd like seeing also the second picture, I think the contrast would be meaningful, I'd like seeing the same old man lifting his head up, after hearing the shutter, and smiling at you.
I think, but it's just my poor opinion, without any pretension to state anything absolute, that maybe trying hard to see too deep meaning , great social metaphors and hidden intention of the photographer, inside a picture in a way deprives it a little of its original essence.
I consider a candid picture as the wish to frozen and represent a moment of reality which impressed us, as photographers and observers of life.
Then we have not to look for many different meanings to enhance the value of the picture itself.
As Wilde said, the truth is rarely pure and never simple, but I think a picture speak directly to us, if we can understand its language.
A picture, maybe, doesn’t ask us to be analysed, it ask us to be seen, perceived.
Marisa
Guest 15-Nov-2005 14:12
I must be right: you walk around with the camera practically stuck to your eye. It gives you great opportunities and fantastic results. Thank you for sharing the ins of this image.
Kal Khogali15-Nov-2005 13:54
I saw him pedaling slowly with his head down Jeroen. He looked tired, and I immediately noticed the uniform and it's state. I ran in to the middle of the street, put the camera to my eye and walked towards him as he peddled. I took two pictures, this one, and a second as he looked up. I was close enough that he he heard the shutter from the first picture, he smiled as I stepped out of his way...so I was right infront of him, and he was moving....but not very fast.
Guest 15-Nov-2005 11:09
Kal, apart from telling you this is another fantastic image, I would really like to know how you did this. Was this man moving, or not? The short focal length makes me think you were right in front of him, him standing still, not moving at all. Would you enlighten us?
Kal Khogali14-Nov-2005 11:39
Thank you all. A forgotten revolutionary. Robbie, he did almost run me over, but looked up when he heard the shutter...and smiled.
Guest 14-Nov-2005 03:18
A great picture, Kal. Incredibly moving.
The angle is really effective.
Robbie D7013-Nov-2005 20:15
Wow ! this is one of your best yet , its packed full of stories and emotion as Phil Douglis puts so well . This for me is a winner, did he run you over?
Phil Douglis13-Nov-2005 19:40
A very expressive image, Kal. It uses incongruity by presenting a once proud, clean military uniform in its present soiled state. Your title and caption adds further incongruity, by relating this exhausted and soiled man to remembrance and honor. It uses abstraction well by hiding the face of the man, allowing us to imagine his suffering and perhaps his shame at being reduced to this impoverished state. The human values are many, including embarrassment, shame, frustration, humiliation, and impoverishment. The overexposed image offers a harsh, bleak environment that complements the point you express so well here.
Guest 13-Nov-2005 17:01
And they are used as cannon fodder!! great image.
Adalberto Tiburzi13-Nov-2005 16:38
( !!! )
...duncan13-Nov-2005 15:18
A great image that speaks a lot. Voted.
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