New focus for 'Day in the Life' editor (interesting pics)

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"These are the Mora people of Amazonian Peru. They use the nectar from fruits that stain the skin but repel mosquitoes. That has kept them from having the same problems with malaria that other tropical peoples all over the world do. It?s a natural solution to the problem. It's not something that was cooked up in the lab. The importance of this photograph is to say not only are we going to be jumping to the future. We also have to look back at traditional wisdom." (Maggie Hallahan Photography)


"Lauren Greenfield's essay on consumer culture is an essential counterpoint to everything around it in this book. This shows the other end of the equation, the very rich, the privileged in the world, enjoying these privileges. The ultimate expression of that was this guy who sells solid 24-carat gold toilets, which, to me, became iconic of a consumer culture that's run berserk and has huge global ramifications." (Lauren Greenfield)


"This picture haunts me more than any other photograph in the book. Here's a child that works 12 hours a day in a battery recycling plant in Bangladesh. This is her life until she dies and it's going to be her children's life as well. If you look at her eyes, this isn't anger, this isn't crying, this isn't asking for help. This is beyond that. This is just hopelessness." (Shehzad Noorani)


"This photograph posed a stark contrast to the life of the reader. Everybody knows what it's like when you get a flat tire on the way to an appointment. It's easy to extrapolate that to what it would be like to make a 34-day march across the desert with no food, with bombers in the air, and have your only source of transportation, this donkey, collapse. This is like a broken-down car where the stakes are life and death." (Marcus Bleasdale)

more:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/16/DDGB12K49R.DTL