Reality in photography

A couple years ago I went to photo exhibition in London by Sebastiago Salgado. His photographs were from various parts of developing world, full of misery and suffering.

Although this kind of photography is chilling and in no way pleasant, I very much enjoy such photographs; they bring the world closer, they make me feel the world to some extent.

I have visited quite a number of photography exhibitions with a simmilar theme, however, this particular one really stuck with me, I am not sure if it was because of a mood I was in at the moment but these photographs seemed to breath the desperate feelings of the people and places portrayed right at the viewer...


The exhibition was so sad and it seemed, as it seems in all of these exhibitions, that there is no happiness, not even a momentary smile in the lives of these people..