u have a very good point about publishing these. people should be more aware of this. i feel sorry for the guy...

Carlos, you have really done well with this set. The emotions you capture tell more than a thousand words* scuse me. Excellent technically as well... you did very well. Top marks.

It is said that we live in the world's village but seing this pictures and being aware of this, it's just a stupid thing to say...We talk about this so called "village" when we talk about technology and internet all over the world, the flow of information everywhere...But there are some differences between people and this one is the most seen...Do the poor care about hi-tech? We all talk about cars, computers, on going on holidays and all this people care are a BREAD, a simple one...We take for granted food, They take for granted MISERY, day by day...I'm among the people that take everything for granted and I admit that most of the times i don't think about them, many times i pretend i don't see them...But I know I have to stop being like that...The new world only think of money, money, money...And one thing is for certain, the wealth people are getting richer and the poor ones are becoming poorer...

About the photo, you have capture great emotions and great feeling that many people are unaware, me too...This transmites lots of thing...You a true photographer...I love it...photos are not only about beauty but about transmit feelings to people and you did it well my friend...Sorry for this long comment...
(+5 can't give more )

your friend, Hugo Zenha

inner life breakman, misunderstood, to lose patience fight against world ........

yes... sometimes we only see the beautiful things and forgot about the ugly or bad things....
I like this shot as you really tell us a story behind it... it's sad.... but need to let ppls know about it.....

This is an extreamly powerfull image with a very powerfull msg. Unfortunally it is not only in El Salvador. Since they have closed down many care facilities in Sweden this is now a common site in Stockholm too and it makes me very sad. In ways I think that it is the greates sign of our failing comunity that people have to eat from garbage cans when there are so many people with money. So much food gets thrown away from homes and stores every day.

I concider this to be one of the best photos I have seen sofar on this site and certainly one of the most important and one that touched me very much. You did the right thing when you uploaded this, it is not something we should turn away from or ignore

Well done my friend

Johannes.... Flowjoe....I am really sad for your words...I can not believe it also happens in Sweden....we in our poor countries...look up to Sweden as a model of sotial security....That really makes me sad.!!!...I just wrote a message to you.
Carlos

nice photos. feel sad for the guy.

 Madanapale this happens everywhere and on organized countries too...The country is not important...Poor people are everywhere...

I am really sad!....I thought it was only in poor counties!!!....That is really frustrating!!...
Carlos

I am not agree headhake. Certainly there are poor people all country. As me, important ratio of poor people in a country.

I congratulate for this sad work.
7/7
Levent

great work. my heart breaks for these people. i live in L.A. and there are tons of homeless and hungry here, when i have any extra money i always stop by the grocery store or a restaraunt and pick up something for the local homeless. but i really hate the fact we live in a world where we, the people with money can just pass by these homeless people as if they were just a piece of trash blowing in the breeze that we try to avoid coming into contact with. keep taking pics like these, get the word out, and refuse to hide this horrible thing that we need to put and end to. 5/5

This sucks, just leave him alone, he's trying to make his own way, I am sure he wouldn't appreciate your petty.
But is this what it takes, to make you appreciate what you already own?
So I assume you never knew what is of value afterall, until "this". Oh did I mention? I've seen cats and dogs dig into rubbish, who also seem to be fighting for survival and trying to extend the lives of their kind but I couldn't feel for that cause they weren't of mine, so I rathered invest thought in extending mine, lets take pictures of these, should we? Why not? But why this man? There's only one thing only men can take from this, and make thee own, which is that "If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at your self and make a change".
Take whatever you can take from these pictures and make your own, if still not sure what is of value, I can tell you wisdom is, but "this" isn't what anybody needs to share with anybody else.
One guy on GFX noted how underminded things are usually taken on the site, and I am starting to spend less time around here.

Nice series man...
Here in Brazil that's very common...
But people here is realizing that many of these poor people are part of a mafia to get money...specially using children...
But I'm sure that's not the situation of the man above...
7/7!

Very Sad!
Carlos this can be found every where-------
Cupcake

Carlos, my entire life, my passion has been hungry children, hungry people. this photo is stricking, moving, very deeply touching for me. I have had an idea for some time. it came to me this last saturday what to do with it. I will pm you and tell you.
Keith

This one makes me sad to see that people have to live like this to survive, then I realised how lucky I am, thank you for sharing this with us Carlos.

0_o too sad, in mexico this is very common too

Carlos, Buenos Aires are full of people like that. I call the the new Robinson Crusoe, because they live in the island of poverty in the middle of the beautiful city.
Your photo is such and extraordinary work. I think, That you must make a book with all your works. Are real. Tough and with the beauty of horror.
You are a great artist and a special man. One who really cares about the others.

It is so sad Very well done, full of emotion +5/5

Very sad that people see this every day in your country. Stunning capture Carlos. 8/8

"I feel bad posting this picture…but I would feel worse if I hide it". You're right Carlos. Thank you, for your big heart! I think it's our duty, for the us to show the rest of the World what we know, what we can do. I'm so happy to hear about your mother in law! I've heard people asking why God is letting this happen. He doesn't. It's human ignoranze and failure, humans run by the evil power. Publishing this is one way to make awarness of what's going on. I live in a rich country, where most people arn't concerned about these issues. Their fault? No, I don't think so. If you havn't experienced this, face to face with it, you cannot understand. I've seen this, I lived in Madagascar for one year. I went to the Norwegian Missionary School. A new life for me began, but most young people have been safe all their lives, which is great of course, but it's hard to understand how other people don't have this. However, I wish we could learn about real issues in the world in school, in media, on tv, everywhere. Maths, computers... it's all a part of the society, but love for other humans should come first. I think it is the rich countries's duty to share some of their wealth! A world with no feelings for others, no respect or no moral has no future anyway. May God bless this world!

Very moving. I wish more people saw images like this. People can become homeless very quickly in life without knowing which way to turn or what to do. Excellent photos... that remind me of daily life in NYC, SF & Hawaii.

.....................I have no words for this........

ç_ç

This is just too much sir
Exaggerating sadness
I cant stand it
+10 !!!

...Full marks!

....I found it very difficult to say something. Really moving. I wish rich people saw this. Even in the richest countries you can see people searching for some food in the garbage.
Thanks for including the extract of blowin´ in the wind, love this song, thanks fo your photo, thanks for your comment.

Direcly to my favorite artists. max points.
Sorry for my English :$

poor men you captured very well the real world

This is really powerful, strong.
I just think the second picture would have been enough to make something strong.
I really feel sad for him.

+9/9 of course

Oh wow.. your words and the pictures of this man is so touching.. i think nr two is the 'best' one..his expression when he's looking on that food-thing he eats.. wish i could give him some food and clean clothes through the screen.
I noticed that he has Fila's on his feet..what a contrast...
excellent shot,Carlos!!

strong picture, indeed...
i saw a lot of this situation in the east europe countries.

so sad , but needed to be tell

Sad? In San Salvador? Maybe maybe...but this really is a world wide problem. Today we were on our way tot the market to buy something to eat and we saw these three men sitting near the thrash cans and collecting some food for their hunger. We felt really bad since they dont have any food and we got maybe little bit too much... it makes you really think....
This is really powerful photo! Cant say nothing else!
Sad...

Top marks!

This is photo-journalism at its finest, showing the true nature of aspects of the human condition. A very sad commentary on how some can be so very rich while others can be so very poor. Even in the "rich" United States we have some people in similar situations. A prime example of how societies priorities can be so unjust. You were correct in posting this. It should be on the front page of publications like the Wall Street Journal, Gourmet Dining, or maybe Better Homes and Gardens, to show the other side of life to the greedy, consuming, and self-absorbed ways of so many people today.

Great Photo... Great moment!
Sad situation.
+ 10

wonderful photo. real world is this. we always see good thing.(nature,flowers, etc.). but i like to life indeed photo.
Cong.

It is indeed a great capture my lovely friend.... not because is in El Salvador... is the human condition that is in play here !!!!!The development of society is not exactly the best for most of the human being if we see that 90% is poor in a way. We, the ones who have access to a computer or own a computer are the 8% of the whole world !!!! And you know we are not in our best economical situation!!! So... this is just as part of our reallity as everything else. We have to modify the way we see things to understand the need to become better souls !!!

Carlos, every time I see your pictures it is obvious to me what a caring man you are. You don't need words to prove it, your images show it. And that is what makes a good 'real life' photographer. Respect!

Thanks to you All for your comments...My sadness is larger now that I know that is not only in El Salvador.....I don't know what to say....Just that I love you all people who cares about this situation!!
God bless you all!!
Carlos

Carlos, this picture bring a tear to my eye, in the local city, there are many homeless people, doing similar things, and unfortunately we let it pass us by, thanks for sharing this with us.

We see in the streets a fraction of the horror that lives behind closed doors. What screams for our attention is not this man's hunger, but what has probably happened to him in his life to bring him to this. I am so moved by the plight of the ugly, the dead, and the abandoned that I incorporate it into everything that I do. I just seem to always gravitate toward the plight of non-humans. So it seems we have one more thing in common, you watch out for the human side with compassion I have rarely seen in anyone. Eremita must be so proud of you that he is ready to explode, I know that I feel that way.
10+

It's amazing what some people must go through just to live.

just talk and talk... dont see anyone doing nothinG !!

wow, i am aware of this problem, but i have no idea what living like this is like. When i see pictures like this, i feel it a duty to help but i have no idea how, and after thinking about it for a while and having no solution i go back to my life and these problems drift to the back of my mind. Just because we don't live in such circumstances does not mean we have no business trying to figure ways out for other people. We cannot afford ignorance. Thank you for posting this picture.

AshSammy, wtf!! your comment is completely pointless. and you say:
So I assume you never knew what is of value afterall, until "this".
no, but its good to be reminded of it.

anyhow i think its an awesome pic, very expressive, very dramatic, very sad. +9/9

I feel unconfortable to explain.....I am 61 years old....Pediatrician and neonatologyst.....I was the head of the Dpt of Neonatology of the Maternity Charity hospital for 10 years......at that time the deficiencies of our hospital was so great that many newborns died because of lack of equipment....So we went public and payed several publications on the local newspaper denouncing the poor condition of our hospital....after the fight we managed to get 1 million dollars from the government....and I personally designed our Neonatal Intensive care unit...that is still the best of its kind on Central America....Only poor people is attended......our mortality rate dropped dramatically.

I have been all my life in touch with the poor people of my country...and I feel satisfied that I have done my share to help them......I am at this time dedicated only to private practice.....but my pupils are taking care of the newborns of the poor people....
Carlos

It's not the first time you have evoked a cascade of emotion from my spirit through your photos Carlos - and I'm 100% certain that it won't be the last time...

'Nuff said my friend...

Max-out - Xris

What a beautifully strong picture. The US who is one of the richest countries spends all of its natural resource on the military and senate wasted expendatures. Most government programs or the ones that do not aid social circumstances cost tax payers here so many millions even billions per year. Not to mention many unneccassary military test programs and government funded lab tests. Our government could easily redirect money into good sources to help the needy here but we dont. We rely on charities to help syphon the money to people who are in need. We could have a stronger "World Bank" if every country mainly the US tried a bit harder to give to those who need it than use money to take things from people who need to be left alone. Your piece helps reminds us we need to stop forgetting problems outside of our own bubbles of fantasy.

I admire your photography style. Its both emotional and colorfully striking. If you wanted to, you can use this work of yours to help propel small movements to help the needy near your area or in other aspects. As an artist you have that power to use your talent to instigate waves in complacent waters.

Keep it up and use that camera to say what you want.

Sincerely,
Oscar!

P.S. AshSammy use your online prowess to create a better thought out critique. Pathetic attempts at half-wit rants like that only make you out to be the simple one.

Very sad indeed. I hope this is not a reality....
Great shot!

Madanapale great photo

Think twice before you waste food from today

"god"

Carlos, great shots as usual. I think that this happens everywere, and every day is more usual in rich countries, where you have rich people and very poor ones. Slovenia is not out of this, so I can daily see poor people (for now not children, thanks god) dig into garbage cans to get some food.

I see this everyday Papito. And like you have said, it is also very unsafe for me to shoot them, because I see them early in the morning and late at night in empty and private street that I had never have the courage to potrait them. I applaud you for your courage and sweet heart to post this. This is already an art, because without you explaining them, we all understood Not like mine, you have to read the description first to understand my work. Yours are real and they spoke so much without your description....10000/10

Madanapale in our country ( Belarus) there are many poor people like your guy. I live in the capital of our republic - Minsk... many poor people have they rest, walk, eat in the center of MInsk. They ask you about money, they eat all that found, they sleep near the trash , they collect bottles and after they go to the glass store ... gives the bottles and store man gives them money... it's very bad ... realy bad... these peole called BOMZH.

Abut picture ... you catch exellent moments.... very like it... but this man... very bad
B.O.M.ZH in english it means W.P.O.L (Without Place Of Living)

Yes, this does happen everywhere. Most cities and towns have a full range of social classes. I see homeless people almost every day. I am sure the percentages are lower here. One may fail to realize that many homeless people were not always this way. These people had families and homes, loved ones and friends. They may have become ill and lost their careers starting a downward spiral. During the great depression, many once wealthy people who lost everything in the stock market crash met a similar fate. Many of us are one tragedy away from such a future. Intelligent, loving, caring people whose interior is hidden by ragged clothes and filthy skin. I only hope that you offered this man a few dollars for a warm meal after taking his photo Carlos.
Thank you for sharing this sad reminder of social reality.

very sad ........it`s a great shot and i to respect your think and for the purpose of this old man ....keeop going 10+

This is true art with social conciense... The Poor people will allways exist, the difference can be made by those who can make something to help them, no matter how goverments work, bad or worse the poor will allways exist, the difference is in our hands, if we really care for pain and suffering then we must do something..... Excellent Job Dad..... Love you......

well done - try to give you 5

cant you create a paypal account and we all give 5?

should i? may i?

The photo itself has a high level of skill and impact, but the comments written here have impacted me even more. To see all these unique people converge on one photo and share their thoughts and feelings is an amazing thing. People that cover the breadth of this world, not just one country. Madanaple, you yourself amaze me with your life...doctor And outstanding photographer. What a strange place this world can be...thank you for sharing this important picture in a public place. The sad part is that it's so hard to do something about it for life is so short and people like us are only people. But everyone should make their own small effort.

beautifull strong but sad picture.
It's more commen in live but we refuse to see them.

Very sad picture.

Hi Carlos, the images the times do not appear because I house in multiply and it walks giving problems direct, are looking to some server free pra to house my images placed the image of the guitarist in new link of the one looked at there
thanks =]

the shot is kind of disturbing....but Necessary in order to make something to change this facts of the real life ..!!

GReat shot..but I repeat..sad.. Well done Carlos !!

welcome to the real world....

this is really sad... I knew it existed in many countries but I wasn't aware that it was really that bad... In all the cities I've visited all over the world I never saw anything this bad... I think very few people know about things like this... Students here in the Netherlands always complain that their allowance is too small and that they are poor, well.... if I see images like this I suddenly realize that we are richer than we think we are

I think the idea of XUNLING is a good attempt to so something, even though you give a small amount of money, it is just something we/I can do to lighten the load of these people... so maybe you can do something with the idea...

I think that every time I walk past a homeless person at the train station, I have to think about this picture, because you kindof opened my eyes to see what live is like, I really appreciate it that you posted this image!!!

I think you are a really good man! all the things you did for the hospital and like making pictures like this...well done!

Thanks....Donations would be welcome to Vito Guarato “The Home of the abandoned disable Children”....Link Spanish
http://www.hogarvitoguarato.org/fhp/paginas/hogar.asp

English
http://www.sahf.org/

Thanks to you all!!!!
Carlos

ok, thank you! I'll check the websites right now...!

I see these things every where in my country. Still that guy has boots on his feet.
NAture evolves as survival of the fittest. Thats the scenerio here in this part of the world. Had i not been backed up by my family i would have to do the same. So this is the thin line. What would you have done if you were stronger and the other person was weaker and there was only one loaf of bread left in the world ? you would have killed the other person else he would have killed you. So its a chain reaction . The rich becomes richer, the poor becomes poorer. All because everyone needs more.

Here in india as a developing country lot of work is being done for the upliftment of the poor people. But everyone has his own reason. There are various organisations carrying out these things with the help of NGOs . Again that is one way of moving foreigh intelligence inside the country and one way of funding secret organisations. It is behind the closed doors of the politicians that decissions are made whether you have food to eat or not.
Sorry for the long comment .

ps.
All the things i said here are ficticious and does not have any resemblence to the real world.

Another work full of details and wonderful concept..

I am speechless!

TOP MARKS!!
+10000000000/8

good documentary photography Carlos. no other comments...

Thanx Carlos for this outstanding document...great shot
top marks

Man I love all your photos but this one is the best ever, there are a lot of people in my country like this, but the way you capture it makes this one the BEST!!! Hope the administrator would allow me to vote for a ten coz this photo dont deserve a seven!!! You touch so many lives with this!!! WELL DONE!!!

This is to be shown and not to hide it. Technically it's perfect and the message is surely a punch in the face of many people. Good job.

Painful to even look at the photographs...

o man....

Sad and tragic...but a reality that can not be hide!

I don't know what to say.. sad. You captured it so good.
Yasmina

MY GOD!

Very powerful. Also love your descriptions. Keep the good work going.

Powerful indeed! Very good work Carlos.

- Rene

good work my friend.

so sad...

I think this is one of your most touching pieces.... I have many thoughts about this but I cannot say them

BRAVE HEART

Proposition for another titel:
NO NEWS FROM GOD.

hello Carlos
again, I would like to express how much I appreciate your postings here, but It's hard for me to find the right words: I'm happy that you're here.
Fabio

Carlos, I live with my grandmother, my grandfather died in July 2004 of cáncer de páncreas (Sorry, I don´t know the english translation). He was a doctor, neumonologist and specialized in tuberculosis also... This introductory comment is to tell you that I found your point of view very similar to that of my grandfather, he never worked in privated clinics, always publics hospitals, people said of him that was "uno de los que ya no quedan" because of his way of seeing the medicine.
I think that ways is the same that you reflect in this pictture...
I personally think that is a good thing to post this, for the people to realize the reality of most countries of thirld world

Very deep topic,the photography make me feel heart-struck.
Great works!

very powerfull pictures, you are really great with color contrast. the pictures speaks for itself

"I feel bad posting this picture…but I would feel worse if I hide it."...can i start to cry..?

Oh wow.. Very striking photos. There are homeless people all around the globe that have to dig through the garbage. I've seen them in Phoenix, Arizona, where I used to live. They can hardly walk, and the heat doesn't help them one bit. In Carson City, Nevada, they have cages around the big dumpsters for fast food restaurants so that people can't get into them. I don't travel much, so I don't see what else is going on, but it's ridiculous how many homeless people there are.

One would think with the way the government works, they would at least TRY to help these people, but they only help themselves.

i had seen already...
but i didn't commented it ...

it's really sad as u told me in my photo..
there's a question that u must do..
where does it goes all that money for instituctions for this kind of people...?
shouldn't help this people ?


great photo ... expressive and very sad..!

Maybe one of the best works I've seen...
It shows us how reality can touch, when well captured...
We spend our days looking and reaching for surrealism and melancholy...and we forget that the true meanings - the ones which most move with us- are everywhere... in a simple street... in the simple eyes of an hungry homeless...

I particullary like the last picture... expressive of a misery that shocks, a misery that gets our hearts colder and warmer at the same time...
We see human people there... no surreal creatures...
...and I imagine... I could be one of them... I can still be.
I guess that's what moves in whist us so much...
It's the way they are human, like us.

Congratulations on the wonderful capture

those are the most shoking pictures i have seen in this site!
theyabsolutly amazing me! it is so sad to see people in such conditions... they basicly dont ahve a "life" ... its scarry and sad....
madanaple this is maybe the pictures that i most appriciate in gfx.. at least those ive seen..... very good capture

Saludos para Carlos e hijo
Regar to Carlos n son

Yes this is trully a dayly situations on our thrird world countrys.
I respect ur work on this Carlos, n ur point of view.

It's always problematic to judge the picture of such social expression apart from being in esthetic vision of composition and mood. What is most important: to be modest enough to be authentic more as a voyer then an artist, who doesn't bother the feelings; to scream in picture more then to make it beautiful. Carlos: You make theese strong scars right on my mind! Even the evil make this life horrible, you prove for sure - stil all people may be treated with tenderness of a beautiful flowers. Thank U!

pain...hunger becames a human so helpless..it gives pain too much..good shot congrats.Photograph of this year.. i think its so dramatic.

Amazing works man, This is wonderfull

Sad, but life is this

10/10+

All truth about our world, where one has golden plates and the other have nothing to eat for many days. I see it every day, and i also see people looking at u as at somebody weird just because u give something to eat for one of homeless or poor people.
Love u for this pix and for ur sensitive heart.
We can't change whole world with our hands but if everyone of us can give some helping hand just for one person in need it will make this world better.
Maybe i'm naive, but as long as i'm naive i can find some beauty of the world we live in.

Poor soul, great photo's they really hold a mirror up to our sociatys.

We have much of this in my hometown also. Very good picture, much feeling, top mark.

So sad, I fell sorry for that man. Look at this and we realize we are more happy than to many others.

Thanks for sharing. I have to make some donate.

10+

it happens in my country anyway...

Their government seems to have the money to bolt that garbage can and make it convenient enough for the can to swivel so he can get in there... that bugs me. +5

Great great photo!!
I like homeless people, character, interesting, and big bad global problem.
Thanks your directions my homeless photos, I needed your dictum.
+10

fucking world.
Some so much and others so little.
10

thats crazy...i am frozen for couplle min´s
...but beautiful

Me emocionó ver este trabajo..
la pobreza es algo que siempre se fotografía..

pero esta vez fue muy concreta y elocuente..

te felicito

great 7/7

Excellent.

Its is never fair....equality is and can only be a dream.

It's a little shocking to see...
In the Netherlands you ever see things like this.
Wonderful shots, 8/8

real world... feel sad.. emotions.... 5/5

There isn't much that I can say. Obviously the shot speaks for itself. You did a good job photographing this... I feel almost bad commenting on the clearity of the shot.

The few photos I've seen from you are loaded with emotion. Excellent, excellent work.

ryan

I was thinking... strange... but and all i have in my mind right now... is a song from ENIGMA.

"We came out from the deep to learn to love, to learn how to live
We came out from the deep to avoid the mistakes we made.
That's why we are here."

All the best,

Andrei.

If i see pictures like this i feel really bad, and i hate my self for being here sitting in front of my computer doing next to nothing. But it's very hard to break this circle of poverty but i think at least everyone of us should give it a try.

With these pictures you really did a great job it's kind of giving the voiceless a voice

+7/7

Ps.: what brings an ironic smile to my face is the fact that he's wearing "fila" shoes. This is so paradoxical!

hmm..this is a sad image...reminiscent of what i saw of the gypsies in bulgaria and turkey.. the children in the streets of mexico...and even in the streets of my downtown san diego...i dont think this is isolated to the third world..its is all around us..and it saddens me. thank you for making people think about this...

~Lilia
5/5

Nice work Carlos...
Nice photojournalism... we need more pick like that on the web...

Oo

u show to dark side of humantiy.....if we can eat..some homeless cant find easy to foods....what a painful in world..some people rich some people cant find any food... thanks carlos....people must know some truths in life......

and please enter hunger site for to free help.. http://www.thehungersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites

I looked at your photos the first day I joined...before I learned how to vote. They are really spectacular Carlos. This one captured so much emotion. And being that it is technically brilliant, it helps carry that emotion through! 8/8 from me!

Fantastic shot. Very compelling subject matter.

shocked... im a steet shooter as well... but yeah this is something

as always u did it perfectly. great!! i m impressed with ur themas...

it just crossed my mind that i hadnt been logging on to gfx for a while now and got exited that there would be a whole lot to see from my favorite artists and the first photo i picked to see being this sad kind of extinguished my exitement but i have to say living in turkey you see things like this well thankfully a lot less lately.

i have been attacked by a old lady a few years back. well personally i dont consider it being an attack but it was her intention to give voice to her aggression. i was waiting for the bus to get to school when this old lady with her gray hair and clothes covered with dirt started throwing dirt and rocks at me shouting "its because of you people we dont have a piece of bread to eat coming here and stealing our jobs ..." i just stood there shocked not even thinking to dodge the rocks. turkey being a country with loose immigration policies and virtually no clue what to do with illegal immigration there are a lot of illegal work force in the industries.

and i am going to answet the same as your patients do...i see this every day too
and they want Romania to be a European country...while our ex-prime minister has been discovered of having secret marketting affairs of over 2 million dollars...
and lately ive seen a news report..regarding the annual orange fight...i dont know if i heard exactly but there were about 300 tons of oranges...300 tones...and people all around the word find only orange peels in garbage cans and eat them
some peope just dont realise...the rich keep saying they donate, but hardly any of them go and see for themselves the situation..they dont care
if there were more people like u carlos, things might have a chance to change
tnak u for sharing this with us

i also see that daily. i think it is worldwide problem.
so sad.
thank you for sharing.

Really nice set of pictures.
A picture truly tells more than a thousand words.

Oh myGod!

oh This is so Touching...it was a good idea put this image ..dont hide the real life..is not always flowers..all we have to see what else is it there far away ower colourfull world.. goodjob carlos really!!!

Such a sad sad picture.. But it's still a great shot.
Good one Carlos, I guess that through your picture there will be more donations.

This picture is very moving, i know exactly what you see as I see it daily in my country too...it breaks your heart...

I saw this picture several months ago (my sister(elmonic) showed me), and the feelings are just as strong as the first time! i never see things like this in my daily life, but more in the main city.. and it's horrible! how can this happen? the song that "pop's" up is "Streets of London"..

This picture really touch!

so moving it hurts........

What a powerful picture! Out here in SoCal, we see this often too, however we also get people who stand there alwasy asking for a handout. You can tell the difference between the people who are desperately in need of a helping hand vs. those abusing the system. I appreciate what God has given to me and I pray for those less fortunate! Again, Carlos, great job on such a moving photo! This could be a National Geographic picture without question! Top marks. 9/9

a picture is a thousand words...so many feelings all at once..great shot.

no comments... ! +10

WOW NİCe PıCTURE AND I DONT HAPPY

I'm not saying none of the "topic quotations" about this piece of art, baucause since all can be said, as long as i don't take any action all my words will be useless.

Tecnically, I find it amazing.

That's really sad. And as a mexican I can say: that happens also in Mexico.

Is a cruel reality that could be changed with responsible governments, that we haven't had for decades in latinoamerica...

Out of that I fin the photo really amazing. Nice impact photo: you can't just stop looking at it...

So striking and so sad, I like your work.

Why is that man talking to a catapillar?

very impressive ... this shot is really amazing
you have incredible talent carlos
excellentttt work

@thesoulbeyond: because the catapillar has something interesting to say, duh...

@deankuhta

<3

our reality...

this picture is hurting and stunning. it's just real. and that's very rar with photography somedays

oh, man... you have quite striking photos.
Carlos, you never fail to amaze with your portraits...this is awesome but sad.
8/8

absolutely surreal
so many of us have so much and many more have so little
you captured this side of life perfectly

and thank you for your constructive criticism of my photo "key west sunset"

As you know i am new in gfx. I had seen your work before i become a member. I don' t know why i didn' t open this one until today... Mr. Madanapale, i want you to know... that you are an inspiration to me... You put heart in your art and maybe that 's what real art is all about. With these pictures you brought all these people here closer. Talking about reality, speaking with pictures of truth. It is about sharing with other people... My heart aches. I thank you...

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+8

great image to rich men!

I just recogniced that I haven't post a comment on these pictures from you ( I thought I already had.)

I want to thank you for these pictures!
My father is very often in countries like el Salvador, Nigera, etc. and he very often tells me stories from over there. I'm feeling very sorry for those who have to live in such surcumstances and in those conditions. I'm feeling really bad when I look at these pictures and think back a week ago, when I decided to buy a new camera. I had the choise of nearly a billion new offerings, and I could choose. People like him may never get a chance to buy any of such a luxurious thing, he would spend the money he got in way more essentials like food or a place to sleep. I'm feeling really bad when I think of what I could have done with my money, how I could have changed at least a period of life of a person like him. As "Skunk" already said it's very hard to break this circle of poverty.
I'm looking forward to spend some time with my dad in El Salvador. I hope I'll get to know some people and learn understanding how these people feel. I have to be honest: I can not imaging how these people feel, how they think or even how they get by. And I don't believe I could ever understand them without meeting them...
Maybe then I can use my new cam in a more reasonable way, maybe I can also give them a "voice", like you did with these shots!
Your shot's have very powerful expressions that is what makes them good photographies, they might be no "beautiful" shots, but they are great and very touching shots! thank you very much for sharing them!

to the photos itself: I like the strong contrast, it gives the a powerful mood! I may have turn them into BW. But I think you didn't do this, because you don't want to make them artistic so you don't want to turn them into an artwork (?).

Lenny

PS: I've been to Albania this year and I saw the povery there. I saw young children asking for money, doing nearly everything for about 100 lecke (don't know if the spelling is right) which is about 0,7 euro. I saw babies lied down on the street for begging, I can't believe that any mother would do this voluntarily

In the end I want to qoute a song by White Lion:

What have we become just look what we have done
All that we destroyed you must build again
No more presidents and all the wars will end
One united world under God

When the children cry let them know we tried
When the children fight let them know it ain't right
When the children pray let them know the way

It probably doesn't fit to your pictures but it's a kind of answer to your quote by Bob Dylan. We (this generation) are now responsible for how the world will look like for our children, it's our turn to change things, to end wars and reduce povery (and maybe richness) - or at least bring it in any balance.

PPS: sorry for my long comment and for the excessive stories.

THANKS AGAIN!

+10/10

Very moving...

A very powerful image, indeed.

It’s a glimpse into humanity itself. Not just the individual but mankind as a whole.

I think what disturbs/touches us most in this capture is the knowledge that we are part of a species that generally regards itself as morally and intellectually superior to all others. Yet we have created, from a virtually blank slate, a socio-economic system that produces poverty and unnecessary suffering.
Arguably, necessitates it.

I think most people feel the inclination of revolt when we see reality in this light. Perhaps some feel sympathy others, guilt.
For in the end, this is what we, and we as mankind alone, create and procreate. This is just one facet of the diamond we have manifested.

Everyone has their bad side eh?

The mirror can be cruel.
But it is merely a reflection.


Or is this just the wine talking

Anyhow, keeping along the Dylan theme, I thought this song was appropriate.





In the time of my confession, in the hour of my deepest need
When the pool of tears beneath my feet flood every newborn seed
There's a dyin' voice within me reaching out somewhere,
Toiling in the danger and in the morals of despair.

Don't have the inclination to look back on any mistake,
Like Cain, I now behold this chain of events that I must break.
In the fury of the moment I can see the Master's hand
In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand.

Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear,
Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer.
The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way
To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay.

I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame
And every time I pass that way I always hear my name.
Then onward in my journey I come to understand
That every hair is numbered like every grain of sand.

I have gone from rags to riches in the sorrow of the night
In the violence of a summer's dream, in the chill of a wintry light,
In the bitter dance of loneliness fading into space,
In the broken mirror of innocence on each forgotten face.

I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea
Sometimes I turn, there's someone there, other times it's only me.
I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man
Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

• Dylan, Every Grain of Sand

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. _Bob Dylan

Reminds me of this song: "the streets of london"

Have you seen the old man, in the closed-down market
kicking up the papers, with his worn-out shoes?
In his eyes you see no pride, hands held loosely by his side
yesterday's papers, telling yesterday's news

So how can you tell me, you're lonely
and say for you the sun don't shine?
Let me take you by the hand,
and lead you through the streets of London
I'll show you something, to make you change your mind

Have you seen the old girl, who walks the streets of London
dirt in her hair, and her clothes in rags?
She's no time for talking, she just keeps right on walking
Carrying her home, in two carrier bags

So how can you tell me, you're lonely
and say for you the sun don't shine?
Let me take you by the hand,
and lead you through the streets of London
I'll show you something, to make you change your mind

In the all-night cafe, at a quarter past eleven
same old man sitting there, on his own
Looking at the world, over the rim of his tea-cup
Each day lasts an hour, then he wanders home alone

So how can you tell me, you're lonely
and say for you the sun don't shine?
Let me take you by the hand,
and lead you through the streets of London
I'll show you something, to make you change your mind

I'll show you something, to make you change your mind

Bless you for deciding to post these photos. They are horrific and terribly disturbing. We need to see this type of thing to remind us of our need to help those who need our help.

No Carlos asi no es hermano ! no puedes traficar con la miseria humana esto no me parece etico en un profesional de tu nivel !

Denis Lizarbe

Thank you for sharing this with us Carlos, you have done a very noble thing. Maybe we - who have, compared to those people, not only everything; but more - can feel lucky that life has been so generous to us and with that in mind appreciate every moment of it more.

I hope the photographed individual has received help - and is not still wandering the streets of El Salvador night & day, every day, searching for food by whatever means necessary .

Todor

Thanks for all your comments.....for the ones who understand and for those who do not agree with the publciation on this kind of pictures.....
Everybody is entitled to express his of her opinion.....
Since a recent comment made by Denis from Perú is written in Spanish.....I feel obligated to translate it to English....

Denis wrote....
"No Carlos asi no es hermano ! no puedes traficar con la miseria humana esto no me parece etico en un profesional de tu nivel "

translation....

"No Carlos, this not the way brother !......you can not trafic with human misery, to me this not ethical coming from a profesional of your level"....Denis

I am not going to start an argument about it.....

Carlos

this is so emotionally heart wrenching, in fact, in my opinion, there's only one more photograph that can compete with this on an emotional level, and it won the Pulitzer prize

apart from being a veyr refreshing break from all the 'prettiness' (it seems like the online art world is full of escapists nowadays ;D) , this one really brings us down to earth. thank you for sharing!

very sad..but very real....wonderfully documented and emotively expressed Carlos

I think u are right to show it Carlos.
I find that when u have the chance to forced the people to dont look away like the most does when u are at the city and u see the people who dont have anithing like this poor guy,then do it.
And this is no offending to that poor guy ,we solicitously with him.I live in Germany and the situation here is getting worse many people lost her job didnt have money it is a serius problem to get a work here and i have kinsman in Chile that ends like this man.

Para mi eso es la vida i a todos nos puede pasar facilmente...
saludos de Alemania

Awareness leads to enlightenment, excellent socially conscious work!

Carlos. What can I say? You have opened up my eyes once again. I saw this picture on my first visit to your site, and could not stand to linger over it, because it was just too painful to confront.

I must add my voice to the others and report that I have personally seen similar people on the streets of New York City and Philadelphia. Insane or addicted adults asking for money, sometimes almost "demanding" it. This is quite different from the poverty and desperate struggle for survival that goes on daily in your country.

I have been so focused on the genocide in Darfur that I have forgotten???!!! that hunger and mass suffering is happening at a global level. You have change my perception by your images and your words. And this is not the first time.

Please don't take this in any other way than the spirit in which it was written. I encourage everyone, particularly in the US (like me), - an affluent nation where no one need go hungry if they seek out local and federal government aid. - to financially combat the abject poverty in Carlos' country and on every other front line that it's being fought.

Poverty, hunger, ignorance, misery, desolation and "want" that impacts millions of adults and children. They are the enemy. These horrors that the lucky ones (like me), do not have to be physically faced with, day in and day out. But just because we don't see them with our own eyes, does that mean we can forget them?

I know we can't do it all. but I pray we can make a difference using whatever resources that we have available to us - large or small.

Thank you, Carlos,

Al
~

wow I looked through your gallery and the commentary for each picture. I love them all, it really makes me think.

thank you for the images, the reminder, your example, the kick in the pants.

peace

no needs words..

Very moving picture..

Empty on words...

Just sorry that I have not commented this before.

Surely one of the strongest photography posts that I have seen here on gfx.
Who else than you Carlos to catch this.

Feel really sorry for that man and all those in his situation.

OMG !
YOU REALLY DREW VERY GOOD ..

Nice captures. Strong photos about poverty, a good eye-opener for us who live in abundance. Good work!

+7/7

fantastic mood,, Surely an all time fav..

A photographer takes a photo..... an excellent photographer takes a situation and the emotions within and captures this to bring the story to the world....... The photos say more than words..... It truly makes me sad to see!

Topmarks for the photos and for bringing the issue up!

A sad social injustice, but a woderful photo.
The expression of that man says everything.

weLL, I've to be honest.... to say that, it's not really shocking, however.
I've ever seen such a captured like that.
Man, woman, not onLy insane [as u said] but aLso normaL person.... eat anything just to survive...
Yea... poor peopLe are exist everywhere, however.
Ironically, they often exist among the "sociaList" community...

to u CarLos, for captured this [crucial] issue in pictures.
May the sociaList, the rich, outside may keep their eyes wide open,
to takin' care more... about the such of those peopLe eLse where...

que foto tan bacana, que expresion..refleja el desconsuelo y la inhibitud de un mundo ajeno
excellent photo!

I have read the photo description.
I think you have done the right thing for posting these!

Truly moving photos,well done

I've seen this pic before and it's just beautifully sad, you have a gift for photography you know I look up to been as good some day.

Something that I see every day in my country.But this (2nd) photo have something more.Something unexplainable that only your soul understand.Now i understand that "a picture is worth a thousand of words"

Every person in the world have a choice. Even in countries with a strong welfare system some people chose to stay out of it and live on the streets. I am just a little ant in a big collony of ants. I see the people on the streets and I feel bad for a second and then I browse through some fantasy art of almost naked women to feel good again. Life goes on I guess

i m just speechless... so live.... i am also familiar with such scenario... all the different colors; but same old pictures every where in the world... hunger had made us so different... each of us... hat off to you, Carlos!! not because you took a great picture; but because of the humanity you have in your heart!

This is reality at its best and worse. We share the same experience as to what we see every day. Thats the usual scenario that i see here in the philippines. what is seen everyday is sometimes the most ignored. sad really...

I cry everytime i see these pictures, i really do.

You captured its crude reality, no embleshments or rhymes. You allowed that man in the picture to do all the work. That is so professional of you, very admirable indeed.

It took me some time to actually click the thumbnail to this work... I come from Indonesia and am currently living in Cambodia... It is prevalent here too... Especially in Cambodia where they suffered from so many bombings and chemical pollution... After reading through your description though, I felt like I could and should take a closer look... You are a true human being Carlos...

from Apeirokalia... A Pablo Neruda fan...