Faces from Lesotho
by Pim under Uncategorized with 9 Comments
Sunday, December 9, 2007
All the funds raised by Menu for Hope 4 will go to support the
school lunch program in Lesotho, as well as supporting the WFP buying
from local, subsistent farmers who practice conservation farming.
We sent a whole bunch of disposable cameras to Lesotho a few weeks
ago, and asked the children, teachers, and farmers participating in the
program to take photos of their daily lives. We wanted them to help us
document their lives and their stories, to bridge the distance,
physical or otherwise, between us. When we got the cameras back and
developed the films, we were completely swept away by the power of
those images. Unlike photographs filtered by the professional eye, these came from the perspective of the
people there. They are showing us a bit of their world, from their own
point of view.
Here’s a little teaser, a collection of some of my favorites. Some
of them are truly amazing, especially when we remember that they were
taken by untrained eyes, with simple disposable cameras.
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