Confinement


  • Photographer
    Crystal Dandrea
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    May 27, 2009

I’d like you to meet Phinh. She is eighty years old and unfortunately blind. Like many in the Tân Châu district of southern Việt Nam, she survives with the care of her two grandsons who make less than a dollar a day. Sadly, this is all I can tell you about Phinh’s life. However, I hope this image will be able to communicate her whole story visually.

Story

I’d like you to meet Phinh. She is eighty years old and unfortunately blind. Like many in the Tân Châu district of southern Việt Nam, she survives with the care of her two grandsons who make less than a dollar a day. Sadly, this is all I can tell you about Phinh’s life. However, I hope this image will be able to communicate her whole story visually. Through her furrowed face looking deeply beyond the confinements of her home, I hope Phinh is able to communicate her life and emotions to you using a more universal form of communication: body language, far more descriptive than what words can say.

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