#firstembrace

[mairadegois]

First Embrace

The First Embrace, by Mads Nissen.

This photo's protagonist is 85-year-old Rosa Luzia Lunardi receiving the embrace of her nurse and carer, Adriana Silva da Costa Souza. The photograph portrays the vulnerability of older people in one of the countries most hit by the pandemic. From my perspective what makes the image very powerful is the intensity of the composition. The plastic covering adds texture in the image and also the black background gives extra emphasis on the main subject. 

The image was shot by Danish documentary photographer Mads Nissen, who won World Press Photo of the Year in 2015.

[gracerolland]

There's always a trouble in letting a man hold you. In the closeness he starts to think he loves you. In the closeness and the touch, you start to think he loves you; and in that thought of his love coupled with his touch and the closeness you think you love him. And in this thought of love, two people find themselves holding one another.