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| picture from national geographic |
This picture was taken by William Albert Allard in 1981 I was on assignment to photograph a National Geographic magazine story on Peru. "Late one afternoon while driving on a road in the altiplano near Puno, I came across a nine-year-old boy named Eduardo. He was obviously from a poor family, his clothes stitched and patched. And he was emotionally shattered, his anguished and wind-burnished face tearful. Just prior to my arrival Eduardo had been taking his family’s small band of sheep home for the night after grazing when a car racing down the road struck his sheep, killing half of them. They lay dead in a gully below like stuffed animals cast aside. What would he tell his family? Those sheep were their economy, but now half were gone. His face told the story."
This is tragic, and a beautifully tragic image of the situation at hand. This type of reporting, with your thoughts and questions included about what will now happen to Eduardo and his family are the kind of things that you should do more of here on your blog - get the reader really thinking about the power of photographs.
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