Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Taken from Reader's Digest Magazine -December 2012. Top Photographers Choose the Pictures that Make Them Happy. -- the one image that most says "happiness" through their lens
17. Contentment
Photographer Matt Black: "Seven-year-old Armando Santo Galinda lives in the San Miguel Cuevas section of Oaxaca, Mexico, a community so poor that some 80 percent of its population, including Armando’s three brothers and his father, have migrated to the United States in search of work. With his mother, the boy tends a flock of turkeys and helps grow a patch of corn. They have virtually no money. This photo of Armando walking home from watering the turkeys down a dirt road on the edge of a virtual ghost town makes me question how we measure wealth. So many of us, living in a sterile, manmade environment, suffer poverty of spirit. But Armando seems to float during a carefree moment of joy."

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