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File:Tribu Laarim, Kimotong, Sudán del Sur, 2024-01-24, DD 130.jpg, featured[edit]

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Young Laarim woman with extensive scarification, Kimotong, South Sudan.NSFWTAG
I checked the case using Google and Wikipedia. The place is some 180 km from Juba, the capital town, it is definitely not a city like London or Tokyo, but it is a town of 490 000+ population, it has airport, banks, schools and university, telecommunication company, TV and shops of electronics, churches of several confessions, etc. There is a school and a clinic in Kimotong. So, I do not think that they are so innocent to not understand the consequences of photography. And I agree that the photo has documentary value and encyclopedic value. LexKurochkin (talk) 07:00, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Excuse me, but do you believe to know better than me where I was? it was not in the city of Kimotong, but a remote village in the province. And that's precisely why we went there. It was not a photo tour behind a mall in Juba. There is no shops, no current, no telecom, no transport or something like that in the area. The closest water well could be 1 hour away by foot. Telling this wiöl surely make no difference and people will believe whatever they want, but whatsoever. Poco a poco (talk) 07:24, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I did not pretend to know the place better than you, as I said clearly, I just used Google and Wkipedia. I tryed to understand. And, actually, you told us your vision of the place only in this particular post. LexKurochkin (talk) 08:54, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Wiktionary logo.
Look up “photodocumentary” in
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Have you ever heard about documentary photography? ★ 20:26, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Can you ask the same to those people?--Shagil Kannur (talk) 06:22, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think, yes, considering my other comment. Actually, there are not too many places of that grade of innocence nowadays. May be somewhere deep in jungle, but not only 180 km from their capital. LexKurochkin (talk) 07:03, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
180 km without any transport means (or public transport options) and with no asphalt roads (a 4x4 is required) is not what you may think of (definitely not a 1 and a half hours smooth drive). In fact, wit a 4x4 we couldn't drive often faster than 30 km/h Poco a poco (talk) 07:26, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There are of course different degrees of innocense, but i seriously doubt that she is aware of how people with a scarification fetish will use this photo. --Cart (talk) 14:03, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
To oppose on the grounds that the person depicted is 'innocent' is patronising. Seems a high quality, respectful, documentary image to me. Part of a very valuable and impressive set of images from Poco. Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:20, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I believe that you need to know Africa to judge images like this one. Best regards from Amboseli :) Poco a poco (talk) 15:21, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm African and this is very wrong. Wolverine XI 16:02, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Can you please elaborate that? black Africa really?? Poco a poco (talk) 16:23, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's complicated. I'm part American, part European but mostly Sub-Saharan African. Wolverine XI 03:41, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
And Real Madrid fan? you're good ;) At least we have that in common Poco a poco (talk) 03:58, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm still new to the game, having only started to support Real Madrid in October or November of 2021. Coming back to what matters, Poco a poco, having lived in Africa for more than 17 years, I am the best person to understand the mindset of black Africans. My biggest problem is that you're photographing a naked black woman, probably the most discriminated group in the world. White people will never understand black people, and that's okay. Looking at this picture makes me feel ashamed to be black. I should just stop talking now. Wolverine XI 11:18, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
And I believe in the motto of Wikipedia, where every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what Wikipedia is about. I don't understand why an affected party of an issue should be the best person to talk about it. Most people in those remoted villages of South Sudan walked around naked, that's how things are there, and they love scarification too and show it proudly. We were all the time with a lot of local guides who know the area, the people and the customs. --Poco a poco (talk) 15:17, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 8 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 21:47, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: People/Portrait#Women
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