NEW story from South-Sudan: TB positive

Rosa, your work is beautiful and heart-felt..thank you for sharing this. I would love to see all the images you took while there..I think you were very smart to mix the treatment center portraits with showing where people lived when healthy. My favorite perhaps is the small child in the tent with a blurred child behind, and also love the group shot with the radio, the woman with her cattle and the little girl on the chair. My only ‘criticism’ is that I wish you had a different chair, ayt least for some shots. Well done!! Are these with a Hassleblad?

What is happening with your Indonesia project?

Hi Erica,

Thanx for your feedback! You choose some of my favorites too :-))). Yeah, the chair. It was either this one or the all-time favorite white plastic one…Maybe I should have positioned in various ways? Have not been very conscious about it; but now I am. Thanks again!

My Indonesian project is in full swing. Will leave again for Indonesia in July, for about 3 months, to hopefully finish it. Will keep U posted, ok?

Rosa,
Great images and wonderful people. I really like your work. I’m not a big fan of square images in general, but in this case it works quite nice. How long were you in the MFS camp? How did your subjects react to your presence there? Did you have a prior arrangement with the MSF staff?
I’m only asking, as it might proove useful for me to know this, considering my upcoming trip to Ethiopia.

Keep in touch and good luck with future projects!

Tudor

Rosa and the Rollei…
Briljant!

Superb Rosa. All the portraits are great – well I can remember one or two that I wouldn’t go for but altogether an outstanding body of work. Particularly like the pictures involving animals.

Your work has a beautiful lyrical quality, very well brought out by black and white.

What is the next step for the project? A book? Exhibition? Would love to see these printed up.

Cheers, PHC.

Tudor; I stayed in the MSF camp for about 16 days. At first things were a bit crazy: I was the main attraction in the village and clinic. Everybody wanted to be photographed of course. But after a week and a lot of exposure from my side ;-), things quieted down and I could start making my kind of pictures. MSF security is very strict, but the PC was wonderful and helped me a lot to slip thru the mazes sometimes, so I could wander around on my own…

Paul; Thanx! It is great to get your feedback. Which portraits would you skip? Just trying to edit down the series more…I am not sure what will happen next. I try to get it published first and move on from there. Will keep U posted if I get an exhibition somewhere.

Roger; :-))))))

cheers to U all!

Since you put me on the spot! I’ve just had a look through them again and I can’t really say which of the portraits I’d drop. Perhaps the guy in the baseball cap.

Also I’m not sure the women walking away from the camera or the tree with flying birds really fit into the overall story.

The woman with her animals and the village in low light are superb in my opinion. And I love this one too!

Cheers, PHC.

Hi Paul,

Will keep your comments in mind…having to kill my own “babies” ;-)))
But the series is really an attempt to mix those kind of pics into an overall story.
Not just a beginning, middle and end thing…
But most appreciated, your feedback!

cheers,

Rosa

They’re your pictures Rosa! No doubt you’ll edit them according to your vision of how it should be, which is exactly the way it should be.

I forgot to say, I don’t think the chair is a problem at all. Quite nice, actually.

Cheers, PHC.

Hi Rosa,
I like your images on TB.They have got something different from th stuff we are used to see and are originally yours!!You have done a very good job on this and I would challenge you to publish them.I believe a lot of magazines and newspapers might be interested in them!!
Good luck and speak very soon!!
Carlos

Hi Carlos,

Thanx:-)))) I will do my best to get it published. Will keep U posted if it does.

all my best for now,

Rosa

Rosa,

My, oh, my! These images touch my heart. Very beautiful. I love, as someone else stated, the lyrical quality to them. My favorite, hands down, is the young boy looking out of the camp with the little TB+ written on it. Beautiful. Grats. :)

I agree with the above suggestion to take out the birds, ladies walking away from the camera, and the man in the baseball cap. The last one looks a little bit blurry. Hope you don’t mind the suggestions! I look forward to seeing more of your work. :)

Alex,

Thanks for your feedback :-)))! No, I don’t mind at all. Like PHC’s, it made me think and is worthwhile to reflect upon. Yesterday I showed the series to someone familiar with the place, which brough out something completely surprising for me. And I will keep you posted about upcoming work, but I am really a “slow” photographer, hahaha, so it might take a while…

cheers,

Rosa