Access To Life: Kassi Keita and Mariam Dembele
Martin Fuchs
Kassi Keita & Mariam Dembele. Access To Life/Mali © Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos
"What I witnessed in Mali is such a giant leap forward that only a few years ago it was just unthinkable. Working in this human landscape it’s a lot about feeling for these people and what they go through. These emotional aspects were even stronger in Kassi’s case because he was such a small and cute little kid. As it sometimes happens in life there is a strange immediate connection to somebody and in my case, of all the people in Mali that I met, it was with him and his mother. Despite the fact that we couldn’t really communicate that well - at least verbally - but I just had a great immediate sense of emotion and pathos for this young child, this young man."
Paolo Pellegrin on his experience working with Kassi Keita and Mariam Dembele.
Links
» Access To Life / Mali
» Access To Life Website
» The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
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Alec Soth, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Ann Tornkvist, Ben Shneiderman, Bjarke Myrthu, Bruce Davidson, Bruce Gilden, Chien-Chi Chang, Chris Steele-Perkins, Christopher Anderson, Claudia Guadarrama, Claudine Boeglin, Constantine Manos, Daniel Power, David Alan Harvey, Elliott Erwitt, Frank Smyth, Geert Van Kesteren, Gueorgui Pinkhassov, Inge Bondi, Jacob Aue Sobol, Jörg M. Colberg, Jessica Dimmock, John Vink, Jonas Bendiksen, Magnum Photographers, Magnum Photos, Malaria No More, Mark Power, Martin Fuchs, Martin Parr, Martine Franck, Matthew Murphy, Meagan Young, Mikhael Subotzky, Olivia Arthur, Pablo Inirio, Paolo Pellegrin, Patrick Zachmann, Peter Marlow, Peter van Agtmael, Pia Frankenberg, Reiner Holzemer, Sam Ottenhof, Simon Wheatley, Stephen Bulger, Stuart Franklin, Trent Parke, Artprice.com, |
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Reader comments (5)
These photographs are extraordinarily well done -- as would be expected from Magnum photographers. What really sets these apart, however, is how the photographer has made them beautiful -- not in the sense of prettifying suffering, which would be the wrong choice -- but in bringing out the beauty of the humanity of people who are too often crossed off as statistics, too easily numbed into oblivion in the land of the privileged. Thank you.
Doug Anderson
Comment posted by doug anderson on June 28, 2008
Are these photographs - Pain,love,affection,human bondage,above all pain of the mother's
womb all intermingled in a rectangular format.Spectacular.
Comment posted by SAIBAL GUPTA on June 28, 2008
dreariness!
Comment posted by Nike Kobe IV on June 10, 2009
These images emit feeling and stimuli for those who really wants "enter in the story" for those who want to understand the reality of the facts.
Paolo.... sei un grande!
Comment posted by Marco Negri on June 22, 2009
Photographs that give off feelings,
that tell stories and tragedies.
but it left a strong trace of humanity!
Thank You.
Comment posted by Marco Negri on June 23, 2009