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At last. One of my favourite subjects. 


My father is a photographer so I have been surround by photos and cameras all my life. I nearly always carry a camera with me although I don't have a particularly expensive one. At the moment I have a cheap canon digital thing and a GoPro. 


I have lots of favourite photos. Some taken by my friends and family, some by myself. On this blog I'd like to talk about a photo called Migrant Mother by a photographer called Dorothea Lange.

Lange was taking photos during the great depression in the USA. This was a time when economic crises and poor management of the land forced hundreds of thousands of people to migrate west to California. They didn't have money or food and had to kill birds and scrounge vegetables to eat. Thousands died. 


The photo shows a mother, probably young but with a face hard with experience. Her two children bury their heads in her neck. It's an increbily strong image and I think I like it because it looks a little like my mother, though she probably wouldn't appreciate me saying so.