{"id":2139,"date":"2011-07-27T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2013-01-13T15:12:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T22:12:41","slug":"water-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/water-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Water works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/kairosphotos.photoshelter.com\/gallery-image\/G0000Z9tL0QT3OfI\/I0000AU9gVeGO1KQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000AU9gVeGO1KQ\/s\/900\/636\/kenya2011jeffrey-dadaab231814.JPG\" title=\"Water works\" alt=\"Children play in the spray of an overflowing water tank in the Dadaab refugee camp in northwestern Kenya. Tens of thousands of refugees have fled drought-stricken Somalia in recent weeks, swelling what was already the world&#39;s largest refugee settlement.\" width=\"900\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m just wrapping up a long week at the world&#39;s largest refugee camp in northeastern Kenya. The Dadaab refugee complex &#8211; it&#39;s really three separate camps &#8211; has somewhere around 400,000 people, and the numbers are growing daily as new refugees arrive from drought-stricken Somalia. It&#39;s a place full of pain and lost dreams, but as in any place where God&#39;s children gather, there is incredible capacity for joy and love. Much of the media coverage of Dadaab has focused on the pain. You&#39;ve seen the images of malnourished children, for example. I&#39;ve taken some myself. They are an important part of visually describing the landscape here. But if that&#39;s all that we see, it becomes a kind of disaster porn that reduces people to mere two-dimensional victims waiting to be rescued by us do-good outsiders. So part of what I look for as I decide what to photograph are images that depict the rest of the picture: the strength of women, the sensitivity of men, the laughter of children. And when I found some children playing in the overflow of a water tank in one of the camps a few days ago, I knew I&#39;d found part of the bigger picture of this place.<\/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>I&#39;m just wrapping up a long week at the world&#39;s largest refugee camp in northeastern Kenya. The Dadaab refugee complex &#8211; it&#39;s really three separate camps &#8211; has somewhere around 400,000 people, and the numbers are growing daily as new refugees arrive from drought-stricken Somalia. It&#39;s a place full of pain and lost dreams, but [&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":2013,"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\/2139"}],"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=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}