I Am a Single Click

I am a photographer I take stories of people their lives their hardships their joy with a single click A solitary second in their life now forever immortalized Captured to share with others to show them the lives of people who are just like us who love who laugh who cry but most of all who long for a chance at a better life a chance for their children As a photographer if I am given the chance to help change the world one click at a time If I have to get down in the mud in the filth to experience the lives of these people in order to bring back the emotion in a single frozen second A second that will wake people up make them care make them angry make them cry at what they see at the atrocities at the suffering that is going on in the world If I can get them riled up enough to want to help to want to become involved If I am given the chance to capture photos of this world to bring them to the people who are sitting in their overstuffed easy chairs so that these people might feel might act Then the chance is worth it and this is an opportunity that will not be wasted I have traveled this world walked it's roads seen the best and worst of men I have looked into eyes hungry and cold eyes with pain eyes of hate and those eyes looked right back into mine From little girl prostitutes in Hyderabad India to landmine littered fields in Cambodia where people live with missing limbs to the tent cities of Haiti across the waters to the children of the Inca in Peru I have seen suffering and pain and grief that doesn’t need to exist I have listened as they tell their stories as they look with hope when I shoot photos of what’s left of their lives and all the while I am wondering who am I that they should have hope in me