People get funny looking
when they get old.
It's easy to find
extraordinary faces
on which are enmeshed
gashes of street gas
and poverty lines
along with the marks
of helplessness and laughter.
They bend over and walk funny
sometimes strutting in their pretension
and sometimes marching.
Being alive is a conceit
that appears in their bodies.
When I read this, I remember something about Japanese old people, I think I heard or read in somewhere else, it is said that, when people get so old (near to die) they leave where they live to the special forest or somewhere else and they wait for death... It was something like that.
Don, it is not easy to be old. And even to have some problems (medical or economic etc.)... But everybody will get old. I can almsot understand your lines, you deeply look to all these people maybe because of your educated field make you like that. Your eyes can see more than me, you can read their faces... Did you think, how many faces we have in all our life? Do you think that it is not changing? From child to these ages...
By the way I want to talk about something too, you know I was in Italy last year, and do you know, it wasn't easy to take pictures there in the street. Even to take a shop window!!!! They didn't let me. I can understand them. But it is not easy to take pictures of people at the street. And it was interesting a few weeks ago because I wanted to take a picture of an old woman who was helping to his husband at the sea side, for repairing fish net, she asked me money for this photo!!!!
Anyway, it is always nice to read your works, and your sharings...
with my love,
nia
You have to be sneaky. Get them from where they don't see you.
Don Schaeffer Wrote:You have to be sneaky. Get them from where they don't see you.
I can't. It is not for me, but sure I wished. It is also so nature to take them without giving a pose. I think this is also the spirit of a journalist, isn't it? By the way I am sure you don't have any idea about the population of my city!!!! If you were here it would be a surprise for you...it has about 12 million with that number is among ten largest cities in the world (in 2000). Love, nia