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Mumbai India

street children


~ Every child has the right to life and to the needs that are most basic to existence... ~

India is home to 400 million children, the largest number in any country in the world.
And over 10 million of her children live in the fringes of the modern urban wilderness,
working, playing, sleeping and dreaming on the streets of the cities. Many become beggars,
risking their lives, dashing across the busy road of moving vehicles to ask for money from
passersby or passengers. How could anyone bear to turn his/her face away or walk the other way?




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Patricia Lay-Dorsey09-Dec-2007 15:52
Such a powerful view into the lives of these children. It is the little girl's eyes that strike the deepest chord in my heart.
Guest 26-Feb-2007 16:37
the six eyes staring into the camera, powerful, and intimidatingly beautiful
Guest 06-Feb-2007 21:34
Such a powerful image - close to perfection. Massive vote
Rob Rosetti06-Feb-2007 19:40
Impressive... soultouching!
Bill Harris06-Feb-2007 18:48
This is even better... what a sequence!!
Kal Khogali05-Feb-2007 12:35
I do believe the power of this image actually resides in the boy in the foreground, and the onlooker in the background. He has that look that says help me, while behind him is a man who's look is of silent embarassment/disapproval...a kind of tension. She is the symbol of childhood innocense, and he is the symbol of growing old before your age...and the adult?...he represenst society. K
Guest 05-Feb-2007 00:16
tru ai li fantastic. v
Guest 03-Feb-2007 20:06
this is quite magnificent
fred_il03-Feb-2007 16:46
VOte!!
Guest 03-Feb-2007 16:25
The look in their eyes just kills me. :(
Awesome PJ work,Ai Li.
Martha Albuquerque03-Feb-2007 10:51
voted of course :)
Martha Albuquerque03-Feb-2007 10:51
Excellent expressions and mood.
Guest 03-Feb-2007 10:25
...this...
Roe..03-Feb-2007 02:23
I feel so deeply Ai Li I want to cry..v..
Doug Kessler02-Feb-2007 23:13
We are discomforted, yet we must not look away.
Outstanding journalism, Ai Li!
Voted
Cindi Smith02-Feb-2007 22:28
This shot made me cry! The look in the little girl's face and her brother just tears at my soul! V
Galina Stepanova02-Feb-2007 21:16
Sad picture, beautiful eyes, strong journalistic style. Something wrong with this world...
Sheila02-Feb-2007 21:12
Astonishing shot.
I've sat for many minutes unable to look away.
Phil Douglis02-Feb-2007 21:12
The expression here rests in the eyes of the child, Ai Li. The rest is context. In this case, you were able to mask the chaotic background by bocking it with your subjects. As a result, there are no distractions. We can focus on the innocence of the child, which takes us beyond the fact that this woman is a beggar. The child knows nothing of money. She only sees you, and through you, she can see us as well.
Michael Shpuntov02-Feb-2007 21:03
Wow! What an expression. Excellently conveyed emotions. Great technical work as well. I like what I see here. Vote.
Ray :)02-Feb-2007 20:30
Ai Li, your images move me so much.
~V~
Roy Birger Nilsen02-Feb-2007 19:29
Again a very moving shot,you have a very conscious and keen eye for compositions in street photography.Great work!V:-)
sebas veldhuisen02-Feb-2007 18:50
Good framing. The window frame really helps to give it the emotion you describe.
J. Scott Coile02-Feb-2007 16:46
Look at those eyes! Pools of deep childhood innocence lost in a world too busy to slow and care.
david procter02-Feb-2007 16:03
reminds me of that incredible Steve McCurry image of a mother and child begging in the rain on the other side of the barrier of a closed window. There the sheer colour contradicts their plight. Incredible Ai Li and yes very powerful.
Guest 02-Feb-2007 15:52
You captured their souls here in this image. All three pair of eyes are staring right at you and the person in the car with you, hoping, wondering and asking for delivery of their misery. What a powerful image, again.
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