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children of santa ana ....... best friends
the taller girl, Carla, seemed fully aware of the camera at all times during my visit to Santa Ana and charmed the lens at every opportunity. Her beauty, poise and presence was extraordinary, like that of a cover girl for a teen magazine. Innate qualities that far outshone the conditions of poverty, isolation and lack of privilege she lived in in the rural community of Santa Ana, a community also under the wing of Empowerment International's non-profit education programme. Her friend, Dani, is featured in the next portrait.
all images in the "child of hope" series taken for Empowerment International
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children of santa ana ....... best friends
the taller girl, Carla, seemed fully aware of the camera at all times during my visit to Santa Ana and charmed the lens at every opportunity. Her beauty, poise and presence was extraordinary, like that of a cover girl for a teen magazine. Innate qualities that far outshone the conditions of poverty, isolation and lack of privilege she lived in in the rural community of Santa Ana, a community also under the wing of Empowerment International's non-profit education programme. Her friend, Dani, is featured in the next portrait.
all images in the "child of hope" series taken for Empowerment International
(repost)