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Ugly Beautiful

Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 12:10AM

I met this young girl just a few weeks ago in a remote village. She's lost vision in her left eye. If she can be operated on she'll be up as one of our next candidates for surgery when I get back. I've been trying to do some research in the meantime. What is this? How does it happen? Can it be fixed?

There was an entry a few weeks ago on shutter sisters about the French expression "Ugly-beautiful." When I was looking at this photo today it immediately reminded me of what Andrea Scher suggested in her entry. She challenged readers to "Find the messy, the dirty, the discarded, the forgotten, and transform it with your lens. See it into beauty."

Look at the photo again. It's easy to see the ugly. The fact that this little girl hasn't visited a doctor since this started 5 years ago. You can feel the physical pain of it. You can hear the teasing and the taunting. "I can't see," she told me. "It really hurts," ""I spend most of my time inside so that people don't have to see me." She hasn't been to school.

Look again now. And this time see the beautiful.

Update on Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 01:05AM by

maggie doyne

Facing The World

and...

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