thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 11月13日 23時08分

Photo by @JodiCobbPhoto // Please join me at the @‪Smithsonian American Art Museum‬ in Washington DC ‪on November 13‬ for a retrospective talk about my life and work for @ナショナルジオグラフィック over three decades. It’s a journey through 65 countries, lifting a curtain on hidden worlds, showing the realities behind the masks, veils and curtains of cultures worldwide: the lonely lives of Japanese Geisha behind those perfect masks , the women in Africa and China who were scarred and mutilated in the name of beauty, and the horrific and tragic world of human trafficking worldwide. 
Shooting the “Enigma of Beauty” story I gained insights into how and why we change ourselves physically to attain the status and power of beauty.  I photographed the bound feet of Chinese women, the scarification and lip plates in Africa, the neck rings of the Paudang tribe in Thailand, and American girls still in diapers being prepared for beauty contests.
My work also took me into the ugly and clandestine world of human trafficking, where millions of people are exploited daily: bought and sold against their will, held captive, brutalized and exploited for profit.  I wanted to photograph the victims without re-victimizing them, and also show the saviors, the people running shelters and aid organizations. But I needed to portray the perpetrators. It’s hard to look evil in the eye and know that your subject would literally sell you into slavery, given the chance. But I kept in mind why I became a journalist and photographer in the first place: to change the world, even a little, by shining a light into some of its darker corners.
Through my life in photography I’ve seen so much beauty in this world, and also the damage done by the darker instincts of humankind. I’ve also witnessed the incredible power of photographs. They stop the world. They freeze the frame and command you to look—and think. They make abstract issues real, have faces and hearts. They can change your minds and your actions. They can make YOU change the world. And I hope you will!

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