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    Photos: My Scholarship entry - A 'Place' I Have Visited, Kalimpong

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    I still feel somewhat uncomfortable with myself for taking this shot as it appears so exploitative at first glance, but the woman had been so proud and eager to get a photograph of her baby that I couldn’t refuse. Without a translator on hand, I could not get her story so it is left up to imagination, the future of this little child. by: juliezhu Views[84] Difference often makes us laugh. Not for superiority’s sake, but simply because we don’t know what to make of it initially. Again a mother’s love prevails as the familiar element in this photograph, but of course what we see first is a little nude boy having a bath outside in the not-so-sunny weather. Kalimpongians do not have the easiest access to clean water, especially those living so far from the centre, so we can only assume this was a rare treat for the boy. by: juliezhu Views[106] This was the first time I had visited a developing country and one of my biggest learnings was how universal certain traits of humanity were. For instance, the motherly love and pride in this photograph is a familiar subject matter, something we can recognise immediately without needing to know anything more. by: juliezhu Views[87] I can still hear the chuckle of this old woman as we trekked past her home on the side of a very steep mountain. Here she is captured pensive, though moments later she would laugh at me trying to take photographs of the dogs lazing at her feet. What I found in the Kalimpong community was a simple contentment with life, free from what we could actually accurately label #firstworldproblems, minor problems of the developed world which we blow far out of proportion. by: juliezhu Views[68]  

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