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After the tsunami 2004, the Sri Lankan army gathered survivors of totally devasted areas in temporary camps settled by non govermental organizations close to the capital, Colombo. Two weeks after the tsunami, this government forbade adoption, even from Sri Lankans couples, in order to prevent sexual tourism. Almost two years after, one thousand people live ressourceless in wooden hutments and share a single tap in this camp located 1 km south of Colombo. Four hundred of them are children and orphans abandoned to themselves, suffering from malnutrition and poor hygiene. In spite of receiving more than 130 million euros of international subsidies, the Sri Lankan government has not done anything so far for these people, except moving them hundreds of kilometers away from their village.

Some of these kids are also suffering from psychological trauma and do not speak neither communicate at all. Many of these abandoned children, without any security nor protection, are kidnapped and then forced to be child soldiers by the LTTE rebels leading the civil war against the goverment in the north of the country (summer 2006).

Canon EOS 50, 28mm, f/4,5, Kodak Tmax 100, scan from a neg.

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~xxxbWitch Oct 4, 2009
For some reason my eyes really fall on the puddle in this picture.
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~sobarba Apr 11, 2009
:heart:
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~musicapollon Mar 31, 2008
fortunately you appear in my world..
your glance is very important for me..
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~BlacKoOoCaT Apr 17, 2007   Photographer
dis, tu serais pas sur zyeuter? Ton style me rappelle des photos que j'avais déja admiré. En tout cas c'est une tres belle gallerie qui respire la vie
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*arnaudlegrand Apr 18, 2007
merci jeune fille pour l'intérêt que tu portes à mes photos, et non, je ne suis pas sur ce site, mais c'est une idée ;)
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~Emotion89 Apr 8, 2007  Hobbyist Photographer
this pic is awesome!!! :/ and this kids are really poor
what happens to them is so sad
how do you do it that he does not run away or anything?
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~Zaqari Apr 8, 2007   Photographer
great work, I didn't realise his eyes were visible untill I looked closer. I like the fact he's hidden in shadows. The wide-angle shows well the terrible environment he lives in :+fav:
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!kerian Nov 1, 2006
Would like to see him more in focus, believe to see that it's actually the pots in the bg which are.
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*arnaudlegrand Nov 1, 2006
interesting. At f/4,5 and 28 mm, you can have 1m deep focused. he eyes and the pots are both in focus, not his arm though... maybe that's a choice, maybe not ;)
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!kerian Nov 8, 2006
Really, I don't really see his eyes in focus though :p maybe that's my monitor, maybe my eyes, maybe not :p.

Btw, r u printing that stuff? Selling it so someone? Making some article out of it? Who's the one who'll receive the shots in the end, didn't you say you were shooting for some NGO or so?
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