Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Blog 3: Photo Analysis
This is an image of kids starving in Africa. I see about 15 kids half naked in the hot sun hungry. Looking at the image you can see almost every kids ribcage. Very few of the children in the image look happy. The image isn't candid because not all of the children are posing for the camera.
This picture makes me feel really bad for these children. It makes me want to help by donating money or food. It is sad how these kids in Africa are starving and people in America are taking things that we are fortunate to have for granted. This makes me think about how fortunate I am to have the things I do have.
It is sad to know that there are kids in the world starving everyday. I have never truly known approximately how many people suffer from hunger in Africa until I found this picture. It has been stated that around 11 million people suffer from hunger in Africa and throughout the world not including the U.S. 852 million people are starving. These numbers are shocking and make me wonder how this even began.
Just from looking at this image I can tell that the photographer's intentions were to make people more aware of what is going on. Instead of talking about what is going on the photographer captured it to have a bigger impact. This photo really makes people stop and think about how unfortunate this situation is. It possibly might even make people want to do something to help. This and the many other photos have had to have some kind of imact on someone to make them want to do something to help.