|
|
Article: Southern exposure: highlighting the work of photographers from the majority world.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2003 New Internationalist Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
This man from Azad Kashmir, like most impoverished people afflicted by leprosy, was unaware that the disease was curable. Many ears elapsed before he somehow heard about the Adelheid Leprosy Centre (MALC) and was able to come to Karachi to seek treatment. By the time he arrived the disease had left him with stumps for hands and feet. When I photographed him in 1999 his fierce independence set him apart from all the other patients. He had just bathed himself and changed into fresh clothes. Sitting on the edge of his bunkh he changed the bandages on his stumps unaided, tuckin the loose ends in with his chaqoc (knife). At lunchtime I saw him peeling and cutting an onion to ...