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Hospitalfield House is an arts centre and historic house in Arbroath, Angus, Scotland, regarded as "one of the finest country houses in Scotland". It is believed to be "Scotland's first school of fine art" and the first art college in Britain. It is a registered charity under Scottish law. A range of prominent Scottish artists have worked there, including Joan Eardley, Peter Howson, Will Maclean, Robert Colquhoun, Robert MacBryde, William Gear, Alasdair Gray, Wendy McMurdo, and Callum Innes.
A hospital was founded on the site in the 13th century by monks from nearby Arbroath Abbey as a leprosy and plague hospice called the Hospital of St John the Baptist. The property was purchased by the Reverend James Fraser around 1664 and was subsequently owned by successive generations of the Fraser family. Walter Scott visited the house in 1813, and he used it as the model for "Monkbarns" in his novel The Antiquary (1816).
The last Fraser to own the property was the wealthy heiress Elizabeth Fraser (1805–1873). In 1843, she married Scottish artist Patrick Allan, who later added the Fraser surname to his and became known as Patrick Allan-Fraser. The son of an Arbroath weaving merchant, he had studied art in Edinburgh and became a painter. In 1842, he had been commissioned to do a series of illustrations for an edition of Scott's The Antiquary. While carrying out this work, he had visited Hospitalfield House that year and met Elizabeth Fraser, who was a widow eight years his senior, and they were married the following year.
Together, they embarked on substantial remodelling of Hospitalfield House. The renovations used mainly local craftsmen and converted an 18th-century barn into a gallery, added a five-storey bartizan and a large wing. He had a keen interest in the arts and set up the Patrick Allan-Fraser of Hospitalfield Trust to support young artists. Hospitalfield House was bequeathed "for the promotion of Education in the Arts" upon the death of Allan-Fraser in 1890, there being no heirs to his estate.
The building is now a residential art centre, music and conference venue. It is open to the public for four open weekends per year and for other events, including afternoon tours on the first Wednesday of each month.
In 2008, it was used as a film location for the docu-drama "Children of the Dead End", starring Stephen Rea.
In 2015, Hospitalfield curated and organised Graham Fagen's exhibition for Scotland + Venice, a collateral event of the 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
Architecture
The red sandstone building is in the Gothic style and draws on medieval domestic architecture. Allan-Fraser was heavily indebted to the Arts and Crafts movement; this is evident in the design of the building, which features crenallated parapets, crow-stepped gables and oriel windows. In 1901, a new studio block was added with north-west facing windows. A smaller room contains a skylight, and there are yards for outdoor sculpture
Kalaupapa National Historical Park: This park is a significant historical site, once a leper colony where people with Hansen's disease (leprosy) were forcibly isolated. The park preserves the history of the patients and the work of Saint Damien and Saint Marianne Cope, who dedicated their lives to caring for them.
- Halawa Valley: One of the island’s oldest inhabited regions, Halawa Valley offers a glimpse into ancient Hawaiian life with its archaeological sites, taro patches, and beautiful vistas. Guided cultural hikes often lead to stunning
Varanasi (Inde) - Portrait d’un homme contaminé par la lèpres. Ses pieds sont partiellement amputés. Vous ne verrez pas ses lésions car j’évite toujours de montrer des images difficilement soutenables sur des médias grand public. Le regard de cet homme où j’y vois sa résilience est suffisant.
Soigné en quelques semaines avec des injections d’un puissant antibiotique, comme tous les membres de sa communauté, il n’est plus contagieux, mais ses plaies nécessitent des soins à vie.
Varanasi (India) - Portrait of a man infected with leprosy. His feet are partially amputated. You will not see his lesions because I always avoid showing images that are difficult to support on mainstream media. The look of this man where I see his resilience is enough.
Treated in a few weeks with injections of a powerful antibiotic, this man, like all members of his community, is no longer contagious, but his wounds require lifelong care.
OHHHHH
WHAT A JOY LIFE IS
Lady with severe advanced leprosy
cuddling her children
on the steps of
the Jama Mashid ( MOSQUE )
the largest mosque in INDYA
all dressed up
and ready
to buy them toys and celebrate.....................
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Old Delhi ,
Gone from the Jama mashid for many years.
I have not seen her anywhere.
however the sad truth .....................
LEPROSY the biblical disease has not disappeared.
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washing your clothes
smacking them against a huge stone
in the filthy YAMUNA river
in
New Delhi
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An old age home for aged Lepers.
with half a foot and barely a hand he is agile and moves quick and purposeful as he makes food for the community.
full of tattoos.
the house cat looks on.
This could be 1799, or 1899, or 1999 ..................................
and 2009.....................................
Leprosy is old. These people lose body parts. More has to be done
VINTAGE circa 1991
NORTH VILLAGE, CHIANG MAI,
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Not only does she have a severely deforming disease
but she has to BEG............
to
feed herself
&
her 2 children
Hansen's disease
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@ Jama Masjid
in
Old Delhi
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Lady with very advanced leprosy
cradles her little boy
as her older one looks on
drawing intermittently.
If this doesnt touch your heart......maybe you've lost yours
OLD DELHI
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Leprosy is an infectious disease much feared in the middle ages.
This chapel was especially built for infected people. please see the information board if you wish to know more.
straight out of the holy BIBLE
the oldest disease known to mankind
LEPROSY
the
holy
steps
of the
holy JAMA MASJID
in
holy
OLD
DELHI
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Lady with advanced Leprosy
and her two children
working on the steps of the JAMA MASJID
Leprosy is endemic in INDIA.....
& she has normal kids.
She is long gone from the JM...
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Lady with advanced leprosy revisited....................
2 healthy looking children with a mother suffering advanced Leprosy.
begging for alms at ISLAMIC Prayer
OLD DELHI
circa 1991
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Though she has all the signs of
very advanced
LEPROSY,
her children are normal
physically
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JAMA MASJID
OLD DELHI
GATE 2
Leprosy is an infectious disease much feared in the middle ages.
This chapel was especially built for infected people. please see the information board if you wish to know more.
Varanasi (Inde) - L’arrière grand-père de cette petite fille est hors champ. Il a retiré sa prothèse et posé sa canne pour se faire désinfecter la jambe par l'équipe soignante de l’ONG Action Bénarès. Elle le regarde attentivement, mais n'est pas impressionnée car elle l'a toujours connu amputé. Le handicap de son aïeul fait partie de son quotidien.
Pour mémoire, je rappelle que les malades de cette léproserie, tous âgés de plus de 60 ans, ont été vaccinés depuis les années 1970 par les médecins d'Action Bénarès. Ils ne sont plus contagieux et peuvent vivre avec leurs familles sans risque. Il n'en demeure pas moins que les personnes qui ont été infectées par le virus de la lèpre, nécessitent de soins réguliers et à vie.
Varanasi (India) - This little girl's great-grandfather is out of frame. He has removed his prosthesis and put down his cane to have his leg disinfected by the medical team of the NGO Action Benares. She looks at him attentively, but is not impressed because she always knew him as an amputee. Her grandfather's disability is part of his daily life.
For the record, I remind you that the patients in this leprosarium, all over the age of 60, have been vaccinated since the 1970s by doctors from Action Bénarès. They are no longer contagious and can live with their families without risk. The fact remains that people who have been infected by the leprosy virus require regular and lifelong care.
Leprosy is an infectious disease much feared in the middle ages.
This chapel was especially built for infected people. please see the information board if you wish to know more.
تبلیغات برای کمک به بیماریهای جذامی
شماره حساب
و آدرس وب سایتشون رو هم داده
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قصدم گرفتن عکس خوب نبود، خواستم کارشان را تبلیغ کنم
شاید امروز برم یک عکس بهتر بگیرم، ایده دارین؟
حالاکلن 50 نفرم هم اینجا را دیدن
:))
These ruins at Dunwich in Suffolk are all that remain of a leper hospital that dates back more than 800 years… Leprosy is an infectious disease much feared in the Middle Ages. Wealthy people gave money for the care of lepers – but they had to live away from everyone else.
The history of the chapel is unclear. It was founded in the reign of Richard I in 1206 and was maintained with rent from land given by Walter de Riboff. This paid for the building of the hospital and chapel together with the maintenance of the lepers (probably never more than about 20 men and women) and the salary of a Master to run the hospital and a chaplain.
There was probably an existing parish church of St James on the site which was converted into the lepers’ chapel nd the hospital was added.
Hansen's disease
aka
Leprosy
at the
Jama Masjid
in
Old Delhi
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Leprosy in
Varanasi
She has no feet
she must be wheeled around
her wounds are oozing
so are his
while tourists take selfies
and ride their boats on the GANGES
human beings with HANSEN's disease are seemingly INVISIBLE
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lady without hands, & blind = LEPROSY
a boy crippled, with cataracts and palsied movements
both working
to survive
at an
intersection in
Kolkata...............................
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A patient in Leprosy hospital in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
36 acres Leprosy hospital a picture of neglect
The agony of Gregor Samsa in Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis of being rejected by his loved ones for no fault of his own, but due to a deformity that suddenly emerged out of nowhere, touched the hearts of many. The misery of being an outcast is traumatic in itself and is precisely what many lepers, admitted to the only city government-run leprosy hospital in Manghopir, feel. But their despair has multiplied owing to the dilapidated condition of the hospital building and inefficient management.
Leprosy is a contagious disease. According to the annual report of the Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre, there are 700 new cases of the disease found annually in Pakistan. “Furthermore, those infected with the bacteria called Mycobacterium leprae, develop signs and symptoms of the disease in 3 to 40 years. It is transmitted from an infected and untreated patient through droplets (mucus), from the nose and mouth,” says a World Health Organisation (WHO) report.
Located in a far-flung area of the city, the leprosy hospital was built in 1896 by a philanthropist, Dr B.L. Roy. However, after being run by various NGOs it was handed over to the now defunct Karachi Municipal Corporation in 1960. There is no prize for guessing what happened to the facility afterwards.
According to the Medical Superintendent (MS), Dr Mohammad Abbasi, 180 patients are under treatment in this healthcare unit. However, this scribe could see not more than 80 to 100 patients at the time of the visit. Currently there are six doctors working at the hospital, out of which two work in the OPD till 1.30pm. The other doctors visit the hospital occasionally but are basically called when there is an emergency. The same is the case with the nurses and ward boys, (there are only two of each) and although they live on the premises, they too leave at 1.30pm.
The statements of the MS about the state of the hospital are quite quizzical. He says that most of the in-house patients have been cured and are staying there as they have no other place to go. He also claims that the majority of the lepers came when MDT was not introduced (before 1985) by the WHO, as earlier the disease was considered incurable. Nonetheless, when this reporter mentioned that a patient had been living there for not more than six years, he had no answer.
Thirty-six acres of the hospice’s land have been encroached upon and the administration says that they cannot do much about it. The hospital, which appears quite presentable whenever high-ups of the government have to visit it, in reality has a suffocating environment.
Walls in the ward have cracks running through them and paint flakes off due to dampness. When there is an electricity breakdown patients are seen lying on the floor to beat the heat. Bed sheets and pillows are stained and it seems that they haven’t been changed in ages. In addition to this, the patients have to wash their clothes themselves, while they have no access to recreation facilities.
Proper medicines are not visible on the bedside table. Instead, one can see cooking utensils as the patients have to cook their own food, as there are no cooks in the hospital. It is simply horrific to even imagine what will happen if any of the patients injures or burns themselves while cooking.
But the management seems to be in no particular hurry to appoint cooks. The MS maintains two reasons for this. “The old cooks have retired and the city government has to allow (us) to appoint new ones,” he says, adding that the other reason is that “no one wishes to work among lepers.”
The city government has sanctioned 100 employees, but the administration says they only have 80 people working for them. Forty patients are also employed as gardeners, gatekeepers, watchman etc. Though 30 of them draw their salary from the city government, the remainder are paid by some NGOs.
It is worth pondering whether these men and women, who have lost parts of their hands and feet to leprosy, can perform the job, for example, of a watchman satisfactorily? A recent incident quite clearly illustrates the pathetic situation.
A few men from the nearby colony entered the hospital, as there is no significant boundary wall to stop anyone, and proceeded to beat and rob one of the patients. The watchman tried, to the best of his ability, to stop the intruders but couldn’t do much. Dr Abbasi himself admits that he was helpless to prevent the incident.
On one hand the authorities claim they have no money to improve the conditions of the hospital. However, the administration has spent millions on the construction of a molecular laboratory, tuberculosis centre and dental healthcare unit. Then why are funds not being allocated for the uplift of this facility?
It is not difficult to understand why these patients are forced to live there. Abandoned by their families, they have no other place to go. Some of the women even have their children with them in the hospital. Male patients voice their concerns about food. It seems that they want to complain about other things as well, but the presence of the MS prevents them from doing so. However, the female patients are more careful in this respect and say that they do not have any complaints.
Talking to these patients, one senses an air of melancholy about them. Not being accepted by society they are confined to the hospital, while the attitude of their relatives has shattered them. Thirty-eight-year-old Najibur Rehman has been living in the hospital since he was a young boy. His family found out about him being infected with the disease when he was 9. They tried to have him treated by various hakims and doctors, but it was all in vain. His mother, brother and family visit him once in a while.
On the other hand Anwer Hussain says that he hates his family. When asked why, he says that “when I was diagnosed with leprosy, my mother did not come close to me.” He adds that “not even my dad or brothers bothered to come and see me.” He also criticises the hospital administration for not taking care of the patients. All the patients agree when he says that the hospital gives one piece of bread per meal, which is not enough for them.
Hailing from Chitral, Mirsawat, 70, sits on the floor of the hospital. He lost half of his foot and both of his eyes due to this bacterium. He doesn’t know what has happened to his family as he has not been in touch with them for ages. In fact, he has also lost track of the time when he first came here. He used to work as a street vendor in a nearby area and when he was diagnosed with leprosy, he moved to the hospital.
The situation in the female ward is no different. Bibi Khatoon, 70, sitting on the edge of her bed complains about the poor provision of electricity to the hospital. She reveals that she had to come here as most of her family lives in India. “After my husband died some years ago, I was left with no option,” she says. As she has no children of her own, her brother-in-law’s kids, living in Karachi, visit her. She very innocently says that her nieces and nephews do love her, “but they never take me home and therefore, I no longer insist.”
Sara, 30, had to leave her infant girl in Afghanistan seven years ago. She still remembers how her daughter looked like then. She says that the clothes she and the others wear are donated by charities. She thinks it is best for her to stay in the hospital so as to not infect any others with the disease.
It seems extremely unfair for these patients to suffer further due to the incompetence and neglect of the hospital staff. The city government should try to improve the living standard of these people. If they are cured, they should be shifted to a place where they can settle down and rejoin the fabric of society.
Scaramella Semibastion, Spinalonga fortress, Crete.
The island of Spinalonga is located at the eastern section of Crete, near the town of Elounda. The name of the island, Spinalonga, is Venetian, meaning "long thorn".
As a part of the their extensive web of fortifications against the Turkish danger, the Venetians constructed the fortress on Spinalonga in 1579 and provided it with no less than 35 canons. In 1584, realising that the coastal fortifications were easy to conquer by the enemies attacking from the vicinal hills, the Venetians decided to strengthen their defence by constructing new fortifications at the top of the hill.
The Venetian fire would thus have bigger throw, rendering Spinalonga an impregnable sea fortress, one of the most important in the Mediterranean basin.
Following the Turkish occupation of Crete in 1669, only the fortresses of Gramvousa, Souda and Spinalonga remained in Venetian hands; they would remain so for almost half a century. Many Christians found refuge in these fortresses to escape persecution. In 1715, during the Eighth Ottoman–Venetian War, the last remaining Venetian outposts on Crete, including Spinalonga, capitulated in exchange for safe departure of their garrisons.
In spite of all this wonderful history Spinalonga is not most famous for it's fortress and it has a much more gloomy claim to fame. From 1903 to 1957 the island was used as a leper colony. It is notable for being one of the last active leper colonies in Europe. This was a place where people with the disease leprosy were forced to live out their lives away from all human contact until the day they died. The last inhabitant, a priest, left the island in 1962 (this was to maintain the religious tradition of the Greek Orthodox church, in which a buried person has to be commemorated 40 days, 6 months, 1, 3 and 5 years after their death).
The island has an aura that is both macabre and poignant. It is now a ghost town, with many of the buildings falling into disrepair, ruins of old Venetian bastions, and the cemetery, final resting place of many sufferers of the disease.
Follow this link to view Spinalonga island in the Google Maps.
Moceniga half-moon bastion at the top of the island of Spinalonga, Crete.
The island of Spinalonga is located at the eastern section of Crete, near the town of Elounda. The name of the island, Spinalonga, is Venetian, meaning "long thorn".
As a part of the their extensive web of fortifications against the Turkish danger, the Venetians constructed the fortress on Spinalonga in 1579 and provided it with no less than 35 canons. In 1584, realising that the coastal fortifications were easy to conquer by the enemies attacking from the vicinal hills, the Venetians decided to strengthen their defence by constructing new fortifications at the top of the hill.
The Venetian fire would thus have bigger throw, rendering Spinalonga an impregnable sea fortress, one of the most important in the Mediterranean basin.
Following the Turkish occupation of Crete in 1669, only the fortresses of Gramvousa, Souda and Spinalonga remained in Venetian hands; they would remain so for almost half a century. Many Christians found refuge in these fortresses to escape persecution. In 1715, during the Eighth Ottoman–Venetian War, the last remaining Venetian outposts on Crete, including Spinalonga, capitulated in exchange for safe departure of their garrisons.
In spite of all this wonderful history Spinalonga is not most famous for it's fortress and it has a much more gloomy claim to fame. From 1903 to 1957 the island was used as a leper colony. It is notable for being one of the last active leper colonies in Europe. This was a place where people with the disease leprosy were forced to live out their lives away from all human contact until the day they died. The last inhabitant, a priest, left the island in 1962 (this was to maintain the religious tradition of the Greek Orthodox church, in which a buried person has to be commemorated 40 days, 6 months, 1, 3 and 5 years after their death).
The island has an aura that is both macabre and poignant. It is now a ghost town, with many of the buildings falling into disrepair, ruins of old Venetian bastions, and the cemetery, final resting place of many sufferers of the disease.
Follow this link to view Spinalonga island in the Google Maps.
Vines are taking over one of the abandon quarter of leprosy settlement.
More facts abt leprosy settlement
malaysia.news.yahoo.com/sungai-buloh-valley-hope-leprosy-...
www.valleyofhope.my/universal-values-of-sungai-buloh-sett...
More pictures from this morning walk are here
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Two or three times a week, Upaday goes to the hospital, he's not a doctor but he takes care of leprosy patients since many years. Even though the patients had medication the sickness may re-appear, here they remove some dead skin, they will then make a bandage, Randular who is being treated is such a lovely person, a his nice gentle look which stays in mind...
The doctor thought this was leprosy. It's the only case we saw there. But the problem is that if there's one, there're probably more.
Photo by Lee
These two houses of leprosy settlers are still intact. May be these were vacated not that long ago.
More pictures from this morning walk in the Valley of Hope are here
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Search for leprosy settlement Sg Buluh or Valley of Hope for more info about this place
A close up
of a lady with severe advanced leprosy, a disease that has turned her hands into fingerless , claw like structures.
Her face is leonine ( resembling a lion ) also due to the disease.
Her children have normal features are not afflicted and are usually found with her reading and writing children's books.
Billions will be spent on EBOLA...............................................
Millions have Leprosy
Maybe a few thousand have EBOLA
Nothing will be spent on LEPROSY
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Old Delhi
its 2022
the worlds largest Democracy.
And he has a disease that can be cured.
Many people with Leprosy use their deformities to earn their living as does this man.
Thus they do not go for medical help, knowing they can eke out a living begging instead of facing the stigma of LEPROSY, shunned from society and from the labor force.
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www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs101/en/
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this is a tragedy, current and endemic in a few nations in the world.
Yet there are is no MEDIA shining a spotlight anywhere i can see.
its 24/7 UKRAINE RUSSIA and putting masks on 5 year olds.
as if thats the only dilemma in this very very very huge complex planet.
NIZAM UD DIN
DELHI
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L E P R O S Y
North Village Home for elderly Lepers
Chiang Mai,
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Excerpt from visitbergen.com:
Founded in the 15th c., St. George’s was a hospital for lepers until the middle of the 20th c. The present day buildings date back to the 18th c.
Between 1850 and 1900 Bergen had three hospitals for leprosy patients and the largest concentration of patients in Europe. The city’s oldest leprosy hospital, St. George’s Hospital, is now not only a monument to thousands of personal tragedies, it is also an important arena for the dissemination of Norwegian work and research on leprosy. In many parts of the world leprosy is commonly known as Hansen’s disease, after the Norwegian physician Gerhard Armauer Hansen who discovered the leprosy bacillus in Bergen in 1873.
St. George’s Hospital was probably raised on the grounds of Nonneseter convent in the 1400s. The patients may have received plants for food and medical use from the convent. The herb garden we meet today is from the 1990s.
Each year, 600,000 newborns die within 28 days in India;
the highest in world!
The first 28 days of life - the neonatal period - are the most vulnerable time for a child's survival
New Delhi
photo in
wealthy
ALIPORE,
KOLKATA
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i have been an advocate for
fighting Leprosy for decades.
It is endemic in south ASIA!
pennies are spent on Leprosy.
Trillions are spent on other maladies.
I have known Asif for decades
as he has begged in the same spot
near Dashashwamedh Ghat many years.
Blessings to Asif
in
Varanasi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=du1k6LR6Gl0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6grLG3UUKNk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P74S3gfVuxA&t=195s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfMipejEY7s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t38TiOFaMQ
Photography’s new conscience
Daneshar is a patient of a leprosy hospital, he's 80 years old and suffering from leprosy for many years. He has lost toes and fingers, I took this picture while he was resting after having the bandages made...
the world is all about
COVID19 in 2020
pre and post COVID
Leprosy will still be
minimized
overlooked
stigmatized
and will
continue
deforming
millions
www.youtube.com/watch?v=du1k6LR6Gl0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6grLG3UUKNk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P74S3gfVuxA&t=195s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfMipejEY7s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t38TiOFaMQ
Allahabad
Photography’s new conscience
a man with LEPROSY
sipping chai
with his beggar bowl
Hyderabhad
www.youtube.com/watch?v=du1k6LR6Gl0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6grLG3UUKNk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P74S3gfVuxA&t=195s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfMipejEY7s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t38TiOFaMQ
Photography’s new conscience
I have known him for 20 years
i don't know his name
I have seen him grow old with this horrendous disease.
The fingers fall off
the toes too.
He begged at Raj ghat in VARANASI every day
in his wagon for years.
on my last trip he was not there.
it sounds peculiar but
i feel like I've lost a friend
Raj Ghat
Varanasi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=du1k6LR6Gl0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6grLG3UUKNk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P74S3gfVuxA&t=195s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfMipejEY7s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t38TiOFaMQ
Photography’s new conscience