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Just above the washing station in Karaba, Rwanda I got a bunch of the curious kids to line up in front of a house. There were about ten kids in all that I shot as a group but then I swapped out my wide angle camera for the one with the telephoto lens attached. I selected these five kids because the radio gave it a real sense of place and time albeit not today in Rwanda.
Black and white "film," the simple, generic clothing and that radio combine to make it feel like an photo made during the FSA. While there weren't a lot of mud homes back then, I think you get the idea. It feels like something I've seen before as a kid flipping through some big hardcover Time-Life Book.
Incidentally, radios are the king of communication devices in rural East Africa. While cell phones are making a run for first, the radio still offers more bang for the battery.
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Black and white "film," the simple, generic clothing and that radio combine to make it feel like an photo made during the FSA. While there weren't a lot of mud homes back then, I think you get the idea. It feels like something I've seen before as a kid flipping through some big hardcover Time-Life Book.
Incidentally, radios are the king of communication devices in rural East Africa. While cell phones are making a run for first, the radio still offers more bang for the battery.
Make pictures.
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1 comments:
interesting article about radio in rwanda
http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2007/07/06/02
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