JÚLIA RUIZ
IT’S LIKE WE ARE BLIND IN FRONT OF THE POVERTY
Nowadays, the poverty lives with us. If we go to Barcelona, I am sure that we find three or four poor humans in Sagrada Familia asking for some money. Every day, there are, and not always the same people. If we walk to “Passeig de Gràcia”, we can find three or four poor humans more. The problem is that now, in these times, four our see
these humans are normally, because along the years we see it. But, us are not in their situation, for this reason the people that have money is like blind human, I include myself. I think that I can say that how these persons don’t have money, the society don’t want to accept them, since his clothes are ugly or things like that. Maybe, I’m rang, but I think that is the true. However, we are blind persons when we see the poverty in the street, but this is not the worst thing. We deny see what happen to the poverty cities and how these humans can be living, because we have all what we want, and these persons are not our problem, I am rang? I think that no, and for this reason the society it’s like that. The rich people, day to day, are more richer, and the poor people, day to day, have more problems to survive. Yes, we have lot photography’s that show us how is the live of the humans in this place, but, do you think that this photography’s makes us open the wallet and send a lot of money to them?
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In this photo was taken in Gaza city, one of the most poverty cities. Gaza stay in the middle east, between southwest Israel and the northeast of the Sinai Peninsula. The photographer is al-Zaytoon, and he takes this photo 12 of September in 2013.
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This photo only has a foreground, because all of it, stay in the front of the photo. We have a protagonist, of course, the girl, but I think that this photographer wanted to all the photo was important. And obviously he gets it. Well, behind the girl we can see a lot of metallic things, wires, sticks, a kind of net, pieces of wood, metallic threads, tarpaulin. All these things together forming a kind of wall. Wall of girl house, I think. However, we can see two part of clothes: a nice, thin jeans and a red strip. Also, we can see that the floor it’s dirty, since it’s like mud and there are a lot of stones. Our protagonist is a girl of four or five years. She’s alone, while eating, and I’m sure that this food gives to her some support group. Because, she has a metallic plate and a metallic spoon. Rarely this kind of people have a nice dinner, like this child in this photo. One of the things that most impress in this picture, is that, the girl, the protagonist of the photo doesn’t wear a shoes. This thing shows us, that this girl doesn’t have a shoes, and she walk barefoot.
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Maybe 1 of the 100 persons that see this photo, send some money of these humans. For me, this people are very brave because, I sure that they having what they have are happy, and value a lot all this things. If our protagonist, one day comes to our city and see all the things that we have hallucinatory. I want to say, that we must learn about these people, since they can live with very few things, and we can’t. We have to think more about them, and stop making us blind people, because we have to learn so much of this humans.