Tuesday, September 8, 2009
















I chose two photographs out of the Pulitzer Prize Winning Photograph book. One is The Little Red Wagon and Death (48). The reason this photo grabbed me first of all was the image. A body covered by a sheet in the middle of the road and a crushed wagon. The wagon told me right away it was a child. A police is standing over him taking notes and the rest of the world is going on with their lives. Next I read the story behind the image. The police was there just minutes before about to tell the child to watch out, but the kid stepped back onto the sidewalk. The police went on only moments later to hear about a child being hit by a garbage truck. The image is important because sometimes people just assume things will be alright when really you have to make sure they work out. Things could have happened differently, but they didn't, now we have to live with that.
The second photo I chose was Bangkok's Nasty Politics (119). This photograph caught my eye first because there were children huddled around two other children being hung. Second because they were killing them! There are two parties here the leftist and the rightists, the leftists are being beaten by chairs and poles by the rightists. The reasoning behind this is political beliefs. There are children here that would only come up to my hip, front row, laughing. This is important because if adults can't learn to live amongst other peoples view on the world, then how can we expect things to be better when our future, the children, are just as bad off as the adults.

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