{"id":1842,"date":"2011-08-03T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2013-01-13T15:12:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T22:12:41","slug":"beauty-comes-to-those-who-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/beauty-comes-to-those-who-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty comes to those who wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/kairosphotos.photoshelter.com\/gallery-image\/G0000qXucWqTtSh4\/I0000Zg_A5TXT.0o\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000Zg_A5TXT.0o\/s\/700\/894\/WMHprint5-810P-45.JPG\" title=\"Beauty comes to those who wait\" alt=\"Displaced women in Zalingei, in Sudan&#39;s war-torn Darfur region, carry pots they have made to the market to sell.\" width=\"700\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This image is a testament to hanging on til the last minute. I was in Zalingei, in the Darfur region of Sudan in 2005. I was sitting with some Sudanese men, and these women came by carrying pots on their heads. (So far there&#39;s nothing unusual here: men sitting around talking while women work.) The men encouraged me to photograph the women, and I did as they walked by, and in general there was a lot of laughing. But then the women kept walking, and I just kept focusing on them from behind. ya never know. Then all of a sudden the one woman turned to look back at us, a sort of parting glance, and I exposed this frame just as she&#39;s almost completely turned around. I love the way the women&#39;s arms and the pots line up. If I&#39;d done this right, I would have shot it as a vertical, and we&#39;d have the top of the pot. Instead, I was holding the camera horizontally. Yet I cropped it to a vertical, in part because on one edge of the frame was the corner of a Toyota Land Cruiser, which just didn&#39;t add anything to the image. \ud83d\ude42  I still like the image, as it speaks to the beauty and strength of women in a very harsh and violent environment.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image is a testament to hanging on til the last minute. I was in Zalingei, in the Darfur region of Sudan in 2005. I was sitting with some Sudanese men, and these women came by carrying pots on their heads. (So far there&#39;s nothing unusual here: men sitting around talking while women work.) The [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2247,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/2247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}