Pictures of Poverty
The pictures of poverty and children in need that you see on our website are meant to show the dignity and hope living within the poor despite the oppression poverty inflicts upon them.
What Does Poverty Look Like?
When you think or talk about poverty what images come to mind? What do you picture poverty looking like? Does it look anything like this?
Is your picture of poverty shaped by images of malnutrition, emaciated bodies, distended bellies or dirty and unclothed toddlers with flies on their faces?
Expressing Need While Maintaining Dignity
In our poverty photography, we believe in being honest about the challenges the poor face, we seek to portray them in ways that show hope and the promise of a positive future. We strongly believe in upholding the dignity of the poor.
Our pictures of poverty communicate need — if there is no need why sponsor a child — but the need in our photos is shown through expressions or other contextual conditions.
We work hard to portray the dignity of the poor in our photographs. We view the poor through Gods’ eyes. Our imagery does not portray "the pornography of poverty," where poor men, women and children lose their dignity because a picture focuses overwhelmingly on the brutality of their condition or environment. Children and families living in poverty face many challenges. They have many needs. But the poor also have many riches. A picture of a smiling or laughing child doesn’t mean that poverty is absent or that need isn’t present.
Our pictures of poverty are meant to show the dignity and hope which live within the poor despite the oppression poverty inflicts upon them.