JORDAN | Thursday, 4 July 2013 | Views [236] | View Larger Image
Having spent six weeks in the company of these people it is hard to ignore the happiness that seems to permeate their daily lives. Smiles are rarely given half-heartedly. This girl was never without a contagious lightness that infected everyone around her and it’s a quality shared to varying degrees in all the Bedouin children. Their mischievous sense of fun is hard to avoid and why would you want to? This photo was taken during a session sewing up the families’ traditional tent, she wouldn’t stop cracking jokes and being funny. If ever there was an inauspicious opportunity to capture happiness maybe a daily chore was it.
