A symbol of a disaster
a day after the Far East tsunami I took a walk along a beach in Penang where scores of people had lost their lives. As it was only 24 hours afterwards (and we had not really seen much news coverage) the scale of the disaster had yet to sink in or the fact that actually because of the position of our hotel on that same beach, we had been very fortunate to avoid any harm. The beach itself showed little signs of the previous day's tragedy apart from these little dead fish which lay all over. Without really thinking or knowing I took a picture, probably because I thought I must try and record, at least symbolically, what had happened.
A symbol of a disaster
a day after the Far East tsunami I took a walk along a beach in Penang where scores of people had lost their lives. As it was only 24 hours afterwards (and we had not really seen much news coverage) the scale of the disaster had yet to sink in or the fact that actually because of the position of our hotel on that same beach, we had been very fortunate to avoid any harm. The beach itself showed little signs of the previous day's tragedy apart from these little dead fish which lay all over. Without really thinking or knowing I took a picture, probably because I thought I must try and record, at least symbolically, what had happened.