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<strong>Camera</strong> <strong>Lens</strong> <strong>News</strong> Nr. 37<br />
Carl Zeiss October 2010 Page 16<br />
Amalé, from the Kamawure Indian tribe in the Amazon region<br />
Mauritania. The third generation is already<br />
eking out a meager existence in<br />
the Sahara without any realistic prospect<br />
of a return to their homeland.<br />
I often find myself in situations with<br />
people who are suffering extreme<br />
injustice, and each time I find it a new<br />
challenge to employ my photography<br />
on behalf of these people in a very<br />
conscious manner. These are people<br />
who have been forgotten, or whose<br />
cries for help go unheeded in today’s<br />
noisy world.”<br />
“One of these Indians is Amalé from<br />
the Kamawure tribe in the Brazilian<br />
Amazon basin. He was buried alive<br />
because his mother was unmarried.<br />
This is seen as a curse. Babies<br />
born with a physical handicap or<br />
Kimberly, from a slum in San José, Costa Rica<br />
as multiple births also face a similar<br />
fate. Each year, many hundreds of<br />
children are killed in this horrible way,<br />
out of fear of evil spirits. But Amalé’s<br />
desperate cries were heard and he<br />
was rescued. I can still hear his happy<br />
laughter today.”<br />
“Kimberly lives in one of the many<br />
slums in San José, the capital of Costa
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