The Wealth of Joy

I lived in Kenya for eleven years, and as a photographer and video maker for humanitarian projects I traveled in twelve subsaharan countries, always in very poor and remote areas. Along this time I also took some personal photography trips in Nambia, Ethiopia and Northern Kenya. As much as I am always very suspicious of those that use the patronizing concept of the "Bon Sauvage" and I truly dislike some easy rhetoric about the goodness of poverty, I must say that, as an European, I never saw so much open, contagious and sincere happiness as in the very many children I met in my very many trips in remote areas of Africa. Areas were almost everything was missing in terms of "goods", but were the special ability that children have to experience their love for life was expressed in plenty, providing them and to whoever could interact with them a great joy and and a priceless wealth.