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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

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