Indu Antony - Broken Strings
These images are taken of destitutes who are living in a home in India. The people here have no family because they have been abandoned by family and most of the patients here are mentally ill. The photographer is documenting the life of one patient living here in this home. I think the photographer is trying to tell people looking at the photos about how bad life is here for patients. I think he is also trying to show people how bad the conditions are here and that it would be really hard living here. These photographs are really hard hitting black and white images. They show the harsh reality of how some people have to live and not everyone has a nice place and that these people are struggling. People reading these images are made to think about how bad it would be for the poor people who have to live here. They would maybe make people stop and think for a minute about what they have and how they just take what they have got for granted, but they might realise that they shouldn't because some people have much worse than them and are even struggling to survive. All the images are the same style and content. They are all in black and white and they are all of the same person in the same place, showing the same theme of how hard it is for her there. These images are successful at telling the story they are supposed to because they are supposed to show people how bad life is for people at this home and that it would be a struggle there. It also tells people they don't get much care because the people living there are extremely thin and look malnutrioned. The beds thats the people are laid on are also telling us about how bad the life there is and the lack of care for the people because they are solid with no pillows or covers so they could not be comfy or warm when they sleep. These images are mostly objective because they are photos of a real story, of a real home where real people are having to live. They are also slightly subjective because the photographer is conveying his opinion on how awful the standards of living are there. These images so not have an order they are just showing how people have to live in this home. These images would be used for charity because it could be asking people to donate money to this place to help the people living there. It could also be used online and in the news to show how awful some places are in different countries and how hard some peoples way of life is.
Task 4
On this website http://www.photojournale.com/categories.php?cat_id=221&sessionid=aa417df74626051881a3439200f0862e there are more images that Indu Antony has taken during his time at the home. These show people living in the bad conditions and some even show how the people are ill living there. This backs up what I said about the home not being a very pleasant place and that the people living there don't get much care because all these people are sleeping on hard beds and are very thin. This means the care standard is low and isn't nice for the inmates who have to unfortuantly live their lives there.
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