kids, cameras and hope

after seeing born into brothels last night, and checking out the ICP exhibition of the kids’ images, was reminded of a couple of other similar projects that have grown from photographers who, touched by the lives they are documenting, attempt to give something back.

shooting back: jim hubbard gives homeless kids in washington dc cameras and photography training.
project shoot back: lana wong gives kids in the slums of mathare, nairobi cameras and photography training.

see also: the soundtrack from the film and the kids’ voices as they related the tragic details of their lives in hindi (?) made me think of sadak chhap (real audio files): a radio documentary that aired on npr a few years ago about street kids in bombay.

p.s: can’t get over “girl on a roof” shot by suchitra (simple background, complementary colors and then a riot of colors creeping in from the side)