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Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Canon
Location: Rosebud, S Dakota
Galleries: Photojournalism, Rural
Date Uploaded: Apr 4, 2008

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Comments: 18
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 a grave in the Rosebud reservation cemetery

This image emphasizes to me, the alarming rate of alcoholism and teen age suicides at this reservation. I don't know how this young man died, just shy of his 22nd birthday, but the odds favor one of these 2 causes...

It is custom to bring gifts and salutations to the dead on the anniversary of their death...I guess his buddies came and shared a few brews., left him a couple too

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 05/16/2008 11:28:19 PM
It's an odd collection of things for a grave site. Very interesting and sad. I like the pink light with the pink flowers. It may just be my monitor, but this looks like it needs a little Levels adjustment -- it seems like there is a slight haze over the image.
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 05/05/2008 12:01:38 AM
What a compelling image, Anne.

It really speaks of a different culture, one with problems same and different from the culture I know.

So sad he had to go so early. The light in this photo is gorgeous.
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 04/14/2008 10:41:03 AM
How sad. The low light adds a nice glow to this.
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 04/07/2008 05:14:15 PM
He's the same age as my son. That's sobering enough. Very emotive shot, Anne.
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 04/06/2008 12:08:49 PM
Quite a somber image, though also rather delicate with the light and color the way they are.
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 04/05/2008 09:13:02 PM
A very very EMOTIVE image here, and that says it all.....
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 04/05/2008 06:17:40 PM
Sad and unfortunate to die so young..The light shining on the Head stone is like it's shining on him...
Sobering image..
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 04/05/2008 02:27:21 PM
Very sad about the situation they're in at the res. I think this photo would inspire many to want to try and do something to help these young people.
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 04/05/2008 02:22:17 PM
Oh Anni!!! What a powerful, poignant photo, My heart feels sad for how terrible his family must have felt on February 9th of that year -- and certainly every year since then. To deal with the death of a child or sibling just days before you would be celebrating the day of his birth. Auuuugh. . .it hurts to even think of it.

Thank you for sharing this moving emotional photo.

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 04/05/2008 08:59:50 AM
".............the alarming rate of alcoholism and teen age suicides at this reservation." This is an understatement, & not new. To an extent a social inequity, or an inadequacy of cultures to compromise, but nothing less than a national disgrace. It is a phenomena which has continued for decades.
Your picture, brings me sadness & memories of my relatively small amount of time teaching on a reservation, and the many, many, many beautiful former native students who have died this way. I have lost count of the number those young that I knew who have died. There is no single answer nor no simple solution. This kind of death represents the result of frustration, unobtainable opportunity, dismal, limited & inadequate resources encountered by native youth at many rural reservations.
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 04/05/2008 08:03:06 AM
Roadside markers are very interesting to me too - I hope I never have cause to place one.
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 04/05/2008 01:29:17 AM
Shot when the sun was in good position, but a bit blurry
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 04/04/2008 11:39:16 PM
hey anni .. you'v captured the sense of loss with your photograph .. the flowers and especially the tins ..
we have a few sights around where i live, that arent the graves, but where the young ppl died .. from car accidents .. they have one down the road which has been maintained for over a year .. they have those collapsible seats and flags and flowers and other stuff ... memories .. :)
suicide is a big one too .. ppl just give up .. i know the feeling .. :)
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 04/04/2008 11:21:50 PM
Such a powerful and emotive scene. Well captured in the sunset light.
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 04/04/2008 12:28:18 PM
This is a wonderful, thought provoking photo. The sadness of what is happening to the younger generation.
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 04/04/2008 10:36:55 AM
How sad. So young. the beer sets up an odd contrast with the flower and tombmarker
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 04/04/2008 10:03:09 AM
Very nice - like the warmth and lighting. Seems a *little* blurry.
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 04/04/2008 09:15:02 AM
How interesting that there is a full can of Budweiser. We both did graves today. I often feel that when we do these side challenges, many of us get "connected" and we'll enter shots of the same subject on the same day. Maybe I'm weird. ;~)
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