Let there be light..., a photo from Zachodniopomorskie, West

Photographer's Note

...and so it was made...

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""No man knows more about women than I do, and I know nothing."
Seymour Hicks

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Women are not allowed to be complicated in our society. We still very much have a Madonna-whore complex. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between.
CHARLIZE THERON, Glamour Magazine July 2008

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"Allah permits you to shut them in separate rooms and to beat them, but not severely. If they abstain, they have the right to food and clothing. Treat women well for they are like domestic animals and they possess nothing themselves. Allah has made the enjoyment of their bodies lawful in his Qur'an."
Tabari IX:113

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Being the right woman?
It's the one that multiplies a man.
HORACE HOLLEY, "The Genius"

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Photographing the women continues...

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A series made in 1980, upon permission granted by Pomeranian Medical Academy.

It was truly unlimited access permission and I was more than happy to leave a part of my heart in there as well as a pile of photographs to be displayed within the facilities of the Academy for the next few years.

The permission was an award for winning one of the photographic competitions in the city of Szczecin, Poland.
My stay at the hospital totaled ab. 12 hours, within two days. Only 30% of the negatives survived my defection from communist (back then) Poland.
About 15 photographs were uploaded to TE within three years period (only those compatible with the TOS regulations - that is)
All of them were deleted from TE by moderator on Dec. 14 2008, never to be re-activated (so far).

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Critiques | Translate

Booz (14347) 2009-02-05 23:50

kurcze - ta twoja niesamowita wrazliwosc - dodatkowo dopisana tresc do tego co i tak widac..
cudnie
Tomek

ls7902 (7380) 2009-02-06 1:03

Hi George,
Wonderful way the nurse is turning her head towards the light and with her hand on the mother's tummy. IX:113? The verse says nothing about women. Regards. Latiff.

faubry (35447) 2009-02-06 1:39

GREAT IMAGE, THANKS
francine

Floydian (30970) 2009-02-06 6:34

George,

I thought you would bring this up during Mothers day, just as you did the first time. Back then i was strucked by this image and still am. I had a lot of words back then about this superb photo, no need to repeat them, you know how i think about this. Everything is perfect here, pose, light....b&w. Praktica TL...big smile, crapy camera, but in the right hands a great tool to make superb images.
Thanks for bringing this one back....i put here were she belongs...in my favorites.

Take care,

Henk

ninaL (21348) 2009-02-06 8:32

Wielki, klasyczny Polonez...
Czolowka Poloneza, z pewnoscia.
Oczekiwanie...wspolne, tych kobiet, niepokoj lekki...
Piekne, nie do podrobienia.
Jak scena z filmu.
Pozdrawiam. Grazyna.

MarcT (20964) 2009-02-06 10:39

Hi George,
Superb scene of that relationship between the light... the pregnant woman and her nurse.
BW
Marc

BennyV (34748) 2009-02-06 11:21

Another heartfelt shot, George.

(...and there was light!)

Benny

zmey (7335) 2009-02-06 11:53

"No man knows more about women than I do, and I know nothing." -- that's a good one, George. i can subscribe to that ;))

wonderful capture! i don't think, much else needs to be said here.

bow my head
k.

bostankorkulugu (42866) 2009-02-06 16:25

loved it before, love it still... women rule the world...

chris04stop (6805) 2009-02-06 17:48

Oh, George...bravo. This is SO a important photo, a beautiful and intelligent one! So often you have the great power to tell a story just by a pic! I love it...
Anna Paola

Merline (0) 2009-02-07 8:52

Full of light and love. It's perfect, don't know what else to say.
Hats off.

Mich鑞e
(quite a mix of quotes, and the mystery is still there:-).

Clairedelune (4923) 2009-02-08 8:46

Here again, let me copy/paste a part of what I had written, this time October 5th, 2007.

What strike me in the first place in looking at this very touching (again!) photo, it is the light in the belly. And no, it is not my so usual English mistake, of mixing "on" and "in". No. This time, I am consciously using the in.
There is so much beauty in this photo George. So much beauty... The look of concern of the nurse, the close eyes of the mother, the hand on the belly, and that little thing there: the light illuminating the belly...
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Sorry if I copy and paste. But I put time, thoughts, care, reflexion, English grammar editing (!) and so on in every of my previous critiques. Call me a dumb idiot if you want. But that's my way. Don't ask me to write the fast trivial useless critiques.

I swear, the light comes from her belly...