Of 8500 Lives.... Holga

[mtbbrian]

Saturday was World Toy Camera Day, if you didn't already know that. ;)
I was out photographing of course and came upon an event in downtown Salt Lake.
Set up at "Library Square" were 8500 pairs of shoes, each pair represented one person who dies each day from AIDS.
What do you think of this photograph?




Thanks!
Brian

[2kids2shoot]

Didn't know you did Holga as well. What a powerful display of the impact of AIDS. Sometimes we forget how devastating that disease can be. While I like the shot, I think it would have had more impact if you'd been able to get lower to the ground. I suspect you were trying to get across the large number of shoes and I think if you'd been able to get the more perspective from front to back that may have been better. I'm thinking the lower shot would have made the closer shoes larger and the further shoes smaller to give more constrast. I know sometimes there's not much choice in where you get to shoot from!