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My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

Chile | Saturday, December 15, 2012 | 5 photos

Few years later, standing in the middle of an exhibition of David Alan Harvey’s pictures, I remembered the day my granddad bought me the National Geographic’s edition of June 1999. It had a Cuban boy in its cover; his head coming out of an old Chevrolet. The pictures in that article were amazing. There was not one alike another. Each depicted such strange, yet beautiful scenes of Cuban people, of Cuban life. I was 7 years old by that time, and those images definitely blew out my mind.
I now realize something that has been going through my mind since I very first started to take photos and look at other photographer’s work. Of what photography is all about: giving people justice.
Every great article or great photo is a way to give people justice. That’s what I saw in Harvey’s pictures of Cuba. In front and behind his pictures I really felt his effort for trying to portrait what he saw as true as he could. Certainly he achieved it. And that is not a favor. It’s a responsibility.
I want to hold that responsibility too. I want to help people the best way I can: giving them, through my writing and my photos, this justice, this truth they seek, but so many times can’t find.