Hindu Mother Temple
Bali, Indonesia
© 2012 Dan Denardo Photography
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Sunday, May 27, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Friday, May 11, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Fishmonger
© 2012 Dan Denardo Photography
Billingsgate Fish Market, Trafalgar Way
London, England
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Monday, April 30, 2012
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
Tunnel Troubadour
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March 2012 London, England
© 2012 Dan Denardo Photography
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Sunday, March 4, 2012
Slum Life - Part 1
City Soleil, Port au Prince, Haiti
This is a typical canal in Port au Prince - a dumping ground of plastic, human waste and more. It is also a breeding ground for malaria, cholera and other diseases. The water flows rapidly beneath the canopy of garbage. To think that people live this way in this day and age is incomprehensible to me.
More to come...
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
One Billion Too Many
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According to an article I read in the Boston Globe, one billion people live in slums throughout the world. Yes, that's BILLION with a B. The world population is predicted to reach seven billion in 2012. I was shocked at the ratio of world population to slum dwellers.
In the past two years, I've been on assignment in some of the biggest (and most dangerous) slums in the world. They have many common denominators.
- lack of clean water
- poor sanitation
- lawlessness
- little or no electricity
Experts predict that the number of slum dwellers will double by the year 2030.
What has surprised me most about my experiences in the slums? The people have HOPE. Like the fellow above. He lives in a home made of rusty sheet metal and old bed sheets. It's all he knows. If you look closely, he is giving me the "thumbs up".
Hope.
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Photo: City Soliel, Port au Prince, Haiti
© 2012 Dan Denardo Photography
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Hope Revisited II
Christian David Flores
Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras
© 2012 Dan Denardo Photography
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Monday, February 20, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Blue Yonder
Ron and I are locked and loaded for our flight over
Port au Prince, Haiti.
© 2012 Dan Denardo Photography
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
Working the shadows...
...with world class cinematographer Sarorn Ron Sim.
Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras
© 2012 Dan Denardo Photography
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Friday, January 20, 2012
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Bringing Hope to the Forgotten...
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This image was created for a billboard, currently on display in central Ohio -- home of CAMO.org
(Central American Medical Outreach)
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Friday, January 6, 2012
Decades Gone By.....
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Pigeon, Michigan
January 6, 2012
© 2012 Dan Denardo Photography
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Monday, December 26, 2011
Friday, December 23, 2011
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Olive Lives On
Thank you to The McKay Press for choosing my photograph of Olive for the cover of their 2012 Calendar/Planner. Olive's personality was larger than life. Unfortunately, she had kidney disease and left us far too soon.
A special thanks to Jim Nigro, VP of Marketing at McKay. It is always a pleasure working with you and your team.
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
Friday, November 25, 2011
"Smile"
Kiev, Ukraine
© Dan Denardo Photography
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If you’ve followed my work, perhaps you’ve noticed that smiling is rare in my photos. If someone is happy and smiling, that’s great...I'll gladly capture that. If they’re not smiling, I will rarely ask them to. Why would I want them to paint on an expression that is not heartfelt? I would much rather record their true mood at that moment.
Let's go back in history to the time of classic portrait painters like Rembrandt, Goya, Vermeer and DaVinci. Have you ever noticed any of their subjects smiling? They sought to capture the essence of their subject...their character. More often than not, the expression was neutral; neither inviting nor forbidding. It gives us room to interpret, to think...and to draw our own conclusions.
To me, smiling in most people shots is much like American pop culture – superficial. Laughter is real, as is anger and frustration. Why not keep it real? It’s not that I don't like smiles or smiling. I am, however, growing tired of the superficial smile that people (especially children) switch on nowadays…. usually after being asked to say “cheese” for the five-thousandth time. In fact, some “smiles” are not smiles at all. The lips part to reveal teeth in a way that doesn’t look the slightest bit natural or joyful. It's a put-on. How do I know?
Their eyes aren’t smiling.
It's a smile that isn't true.
Jus' sayin'...
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
A Thanksgiving Blessing
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Come, Lord Jesus, our guest to be
Bless these gifts Bestowed by Thee.
Bless our loved ones everywhere
and keep them in Your loving care.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Takin' a Snooze
A resourceful Honduran hound-dog.
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Santa Rosa de Copan
© 2011 Dan Denardo Photography
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Faces of Honduras - Four
This is one of the sweetest ladies I have ever met. She had a little table set up in an outdoor market and was selling fruit. I could not speak a word of her language and she couldn't speak a bit of mine...yet we could gesture, laugh and give a hug.
Connecting with someone does not
require sharing a language. What they say is
a fraction of what they are communicating.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
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