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    Being There

    by | 5, Add your Comment | Jul 7, 2009

    girlinpond1As I was hiking into a remote farming village deep in the Bangladesh countryside, a gentle rain started falling. I rounded a curve in the trail and looked into the face of a young girl bathing in the village pond. I don’t consider myself a cutting edge photographer and sometimes the element of my images that makes them work is the effort I took in being there.

    I have done several assignments for CARE, a humanitarian organization fighting global poverty in sixty-six countries. With their national headquarters in downtown Atlanta, they are ambassadors of the south around the world.

    Traveling to Nicaragua, my wife and I took a day to explore the Hugo Chavez Barrio outside Managua. I have always found the most generous, gracious people in the poorest areas of a country and this was no exception.

    We looked into the yard of one of the hundreds of corrugated metal and clay houses and saw a boy waking from his nap, his pets eagerly waiting for him to get up and play. We laughed so hard I am surprised I kept the camera steady long enough to shoot.

    I traveled to El Salvador with Christy Turlington Burns, who, in Ru Paul’s words is not a super-model, she’s a super-duper-model. She was also a remarkably nice woman, promoting CARE’s efforts to acknowledge the power of women in small developing countries. She is CARE’s Maternal Health Advocate. Her mother, who grew up in El boy_pets1Salvador, came along and acted as my interpreter when I needed to communicate and even helped lug some of my gear.

    CARE is not the only Atlanta organization exporting southern hospitality, fighting poverty and combating illness around the globe. Each morning staff members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wake up in every time zone around the world, living unglamorous lives in order to make the planet safe from disease.

    I followed CDC Director Jeff Koplan to India as he participated in a Stop Polio Campaign. In one day, with help from the World Health Organization, Rotary International, the Indian Ministry of Health and an army of Indian volunteers, over 32 million children under the age of five were vaccinated for polio! It is the most astounding public health initiative I have ever witnessed.

    The Carter Presidential Center, rooted in the southern sensibilities of its founder, former President Jimmy Carter, has improved the world through their health, poverty and democracy initiatives everywhere. Anywhere in the world you mention his name gives you instant credibility, respected globally in a way his own country cannot always understand. He was part of the team that observed the first Palestinian elections and I followed as he was received with honor by both sides of the conflict in the Middle East.

    I have been lucky enough in my career to photograph world leaders and dignitaries, but nothing matches the moment when I am allowed into the lives of ordinary people living lives of dignity in the face of overwhelming odds. It is a moment of courage and grace that makes all the effort of getting there worthwhile.

    christi1 New Delhi Slum1

    rachels tomb6Photographs from the top: village pond in Bangladesh; boy and pets in Nicaragua; Christie Turlington-Burns in El Salvador; mother and daughter in New Delhi Slum; Rachel’s Tomb, West Bank.

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    Billy Howard

    Billy Howard

    Billy Howard is a commercial and documentary photographer with an emphasis on education and global health.

     

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    • Chris Wohlwend

      Billy,
      As always, excellent photos that are moving, perfect examples of the qualities that make up the human experience.

    • Montynehm

      Such touching words and images. Thank you for sharing. And I trust you understand how truly lucky you are? :)

    • Terri Evans

      I believe you may have been the first to really connect the powerful “dots” of Southern hospitality that emanate internationally from Atlanta — The Carter Center, Care and the CDC — and thankfully, Billy Howard. We hear so much more about CNN and the ’96 Atlanta Olympics, yet the three “C’s” of Atlanta have so much truly positive impact on the world. Thank you, Billy for sharing your experience and marvelous images, but mostly, thank you for connecting these dots for all of us.

    • Subie

      I love having the photograph of the beautiful Indian mother and daughter in my office where I see it almost every day. I may love not seeing it for two weeks of vacation in New Mexico almost as much.

    • C Smith

      It is a good thing I had not read this before I read your Hank Aaron article. The dialog between us might not have happen. Now you are one of my “Heros” for making the effort with the passion I once had. This answered the question I asked you about being a hero. I know now you “would” give that eight year old child your autograph!

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