Clicking the flood

A very tragic thing has been upon Pakistan by means of floods and while corporate culture, as it is, can never remain out in the race to market themselves, whatever may happen, they seem not to be alone. It saddens me to report and realize that many budding photographers have started seeing this as an opportunity for capturing good photographs of stricken families, specially kids.

While western world have a lot of sceneries and greenery -clean one, that is- to make those little moments special or add some natural tones in backgrounds of pictures or add green bokeh in background to contrast white skin [works with most of the skin tones, though], we desi people have a lot to pride on too. We have human in their natural habitat, many times desperate for basic necessity too, capture those thousand wrinkles of an elderly, or dirty face of a child whose eyes speaks volumes of innocence. If there pictures speaks of dreamy world, out of books, may be idealistic world at times, our portrays that of reality. Perhaps, that is why every beautiful smile of a child who lives, anywhere, in a third world country, has people flocking over to that image. 

May be I am a cynic, a pessimist and I see negativity in things a lot but I truly pray that these photographers' driving intentions are to aware people of whats happening rather than their ambition to get a photograph recognized internationally and what can guilt people more - even for a minute - than eating and living a good life while a child somewhere is getting sick of eating and drinking mud because thats all it can get.

Photographer on flickr