The photo competition is over...
Although I'm not the winner but I'm just so touched by the comments from fellow colleagues all over the world...
wow, seems I can really take story telling photographs :D
(btw, the theme is 'water and/or shelter')
So that's what they said about my photo...
"Meets both of the criteria and tells a powerful story"
"This photo shows how capitalism and serfdom are also the biggest dangers to the environment, along with poor design."
"It incorporates both water & shelter and the need for good shelter, but with how it affect actual people"
"Has water, shelter and man"
"This photo also shows how water and shelter are connected"
"1,000,000 words"
"incorporates both water and shelter very well"
"Good, technical picture. Could be placed in National Geographic"
"The photo links the themes of water and shelter together. I love the simplicity of daily life captured so clearly."
"Links the 2 themes. It evokes an emotional response and doesn't need a long title or explanation."
"Well composed and the colour of the water in which he is washing speaks volumes"
"How shelter is so sparse for so many and the reliance on water so great"
"survival by living on water; danger of self pollution"
"Typifies the closeness to poverty of so many and need for clean water sources for improvement of life"
"Vulnerability"
"Best sums up the theme - water as most things in life is both good and bad, it can be destructive due to the power of the elements, it can be deadly due to pollution, yet we can't live without it and the poor aren't in a position to make choices!"
"A very direct image of poverty in many forms shown in one place."
"The reliance upon the water on which they live but the scant regard for sanitation & hygiene"
"Unique lifestyle"
"impact"
"Creativity and Impact"
"It shows how close the tie between humanity and water can be"
"health and water in one picture- awesome impact on me"
"it had the greatest impact on my heart when i viewed the images"
"There is amazing beauty in this photo which conflicts with the poverty and unsanitary existence of that man's life."
"This image has such a fresh vibrant palette, yet something in it's subject matter really subdues it for me. Possibly the person working away, possibly the condition of the shelter. Something that at first glance could pass for a playful image is actually on closer inspection very sobering - that's why I like it."
