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barrufeto_77 (25619) 2006-06-07 3:49

Hi J.

It's a pity that boys waisting their time on a banch in the middle of the week. Unfortunatelly, this is a fact everytime we can see more and more. A pity.

So that what I like of this picture, how real it is.

Rgs, Oscar

riclopes (32869) 2006-06-07 4:10

A good interplay bettween the 'bad' kids on the bench and the 'good' one that goes to the church. The attractive façade of that church makes a good background and the composition is very well balanced with the 'bad' ones at right foreground. The quality of the image is excellent. Interesting the issue that you want to raise in here, as the story of this image could be other completely diferent.
ricardo

jlynx (11380) 2006-06-07 5:24

Witaj Jurku,
Niezwykle cenne s± dla mnie Twoje obrazy pokazuj±ce migawki niektórych aspektów socjologicznych i kulturowych, które tak umiejêtnie wy³uskujesz, opatruj±c celnymi komentarzami lub jeszcze celniejszym milczeniem. To zdjecie jest bardzo wymownym przyk³adem Twojej wra¿liwo¶ci na zjawiska, które zdaj± siê nikogo nie obchodziæ. Bardfzo dobry kadr w ka¿dym kontek¶cie.
Pozdrawiam,
Jurek

pasternak (13038) 2006-06-07 6:30

Hi Jerzy,

Yes, what the society accepts and what it doesn't is a very interesting question and often doesn't have anything to do with the objective harm to the society or an individual but rather with the traditions of the society. Here in Holland, for example, the society accepts marijuana smoking, while in other countries, like Russia, you can be jailed for that but at the same time you can drink alcohol or smoke in public places as much as you want...

Back to your picture. I don't agree with Fransis that it cries for B&W. I tried to convert it to B&W, added some contrast and obtained a totally different picture! Yes it looks a bit more dramatic but in your version different colours of the boys' clothes (red vs blue) underline the difference between them, and it would be pity to lose this effect because that's what you want to show. So I like it as it is.

Regards
Alexander

gaby (19793) 2006-06-07 13:50

Jerzy - great, sad and beautiful - I think the happier in the photo is the pigeon (fabulous pigeon between students and handicapped boy) -
always great my friend (my only problem to comment your interesting shots is my poor english)
Have a nice day
Thanks
Gaby

sergecross (3438) 2006-06-07 18:35

Jerzy, i like the tranquility of this picture and the arquitecture of the place. I like the exposition used and the theme worked too.
Very nice
sergio

KevRyan (22297) 2006-06-09 13:18

Hi j

that distance between the boys is quite something - it's a telling picture and one that really highlights difference - who is the more handicapped really - I could see this in B&W but i actually like the colours and think they are important in the way they link what the boys are wearing and their contrast to this old building - this contrast is also important to the image....


best wishes Kev

Polonaise (5629) 2006-06-09 19:41

Dear Jerzy.
It doesn't happen too often that I'm loosing my skills of yapping about the picture, and this is one of these rare moments (just kidding) For, IMHO, this is one of the most significant and important images you've ever produced. It proves your sensitivity and your mastership as a keen photographer, quick as hell to spot the situation and to respond to it with the unparallel strength and conviction. This scene lasted just seconds, and you've managed to see it, asses it's importance and uniqness, and shoot it with the diabolical precision. And then comes the presentation of this picture to the public and that's where my confusion begins...!? Bright colors, pigeon, out of school, beer, moral lecture...NO . That's NOT what this picture is all about. It's about that crippled young boy and his prayer to almighty who can do everything!
'Good God. Please make me to be like those lads sitting out there.
I'd like to sit on the bench like THEM, as arrogant as they are, during school hours, drinking beer, whistling and talk dirty to the passing girls, spitting as far as to the middle of the street, and run, run, run...like THEY do.
God, please give me healthy body.'
His prayers will never be answered.
For this reason, or another, this photo wrenched my guts and tweaked my brains.
I've seen his tears. I've heard his prayers. I've read his dreams. And I can't do a damned thing about it.
g.g.

Extra text added several hours after posting the first part of it...
I found the boy left behind by 'the leaders' in this picture as lonely as your crippled one.
But yours is much more dramatic and true. And you have followed him into the cold abyss of this humongous cathedral, (built for the ONE that can do everything), and you have seen him praying his heart out to the ONE.
The others...? Well...The other fellow members on TE have seen nice juxtaposition, nice details of the bricks, fabulous pigeon, sex gender of the pigeon, level of pigeon's happiness, nice contrast between the boys' wardrobe and the walls, architecture of the building, the color of the door, uninteresting shades and bleak coloristics, public marijuana smoking in Holland, social differences between Russia and Holland, still photo from S.Leone's 'spaghetti western', and even the size of the bench visible to us (sic!!!!).
Shall I continue...?

bescy (47) 2006-07-16 11:43

your photo is amazing...
but apart of all other things, one in particular got my attenction... the blue bag the boy running into the charch has.
I've the same ;)
that is a bag which anyone who went last year to Koln (for the meeting with the pope for the world youth day) has! And I was there...
very nice

francesco
http://bescia.fotki.com