Hope
Photo by Amélia Lourenço. Lourenço, a lawyer and photography student in Portugal, writes:
Last November I was visiting Chicago, which I do every two years, and went on a photographic walk looking for the faces I so much admire of those people who suffer and keep going…. This guy I met around 9am. He and three more guys were just coming off this van, driven by a white guy and they were being dropped at a corner of a street to go and distribute the newspaper. I stopped and started talking to them, telling them that I was studying photography and would they mind my taking some pictures. They were smashing guys… They all said yes, and we had a laugh and kicked around for a few minutes…. This particular picture came about because I told the guy that I loved hands, could I photograph is hands and he was so nice that he promptly showed his hands.
January 19th, 2009 at 3:47 pm EGMT+5
Hi,
Just to let everybody know that the title on my photo is wrong. I did not call it “Hands”, but “HOPE”, as Hope is the feeling I wanted to convey when I did this picture. Look at openess of these hands holding the hope of so many around the world.
Amelia Lourenço
January 20th, 2009 at 5:42 pm EGMT+5
Just changed the title on this post… Sorry Amelia, we should have asked about a preferred title. – Daryl
November 11th, 2009 at 9:11 pm EGMT+5
God, why is every image on this website so moving and awesome? This is a beautiful picture.