Sebastiao Salgado

 

This is, when first looked upon, simply a picture of a girl, but look harder and you see her messy dark hair is swept out of her dark skin and slightly covering one of her dark eyes. You see in her hand a pen, with it she writes on her only slightly worn out notebook. Her face is twisted into an unpleasant emotion. Is she upset? Confused? Frustrated? 

This next photo shows an old woman with two young children. They're in a doorway on a hill in a desert, however, there's no building or house to which the door leads up to. Beyond the empty wooden doorway you can see nothing besides an empty dull gray sky. The surrounding of the doorway is made of what looks to be over sized branches, giving the environment a very poor feel.

If you look at this picture you'll merely see a sad, slightly dark skinned woman, clothed in a black shawl of some sort. But if you look into the eyes of this woman, you see tears, you also see a pool of worry, pain, fear, sorrow, anger and despair.What could possibly have hurt her so?

http://masters-of-photography.com/S/salgado/salgado_chimborazo_full.html
 http://jenberry.com/blog/2009/07/