〔米国の写真家、メアリー・エレン・マークさんが７５歳で死去〕◆ ホームレス スラムの子、売春婦……「彼女の最も強い情熱は、闇の中から人間性をつかみ出すことだった」★ フクイチ被曝地にも入ってくれればよかったのに！

　〔★は大沼〕◎　コモンドリームズ　
　⇒　http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/27/mary-ellen-mark-award-winning-photographer-who-captured-ragged-edges-society-dies-75

　・　But her strongest passion was capturing humanity amid darkness. As her former colleague Elisabeth Biondi writes in The New Yorker, Mark "never stopped photographing the disadvantaged, and the empathy that she felt toward her subjects made her an exquisite portrait photographer." She documented prostitutes in former Bombay, women held in the security ward of the Oregon State Mental Institution, and destitute families in New York City.

One of Mark's most iconic series of photographs chronicled the lives of homeless youth in Seattle, Washington. That project led her and her husband, Martin Bell, to produce a full-length documentary on those same teens, struggling to survive and escape their desperate circumstances.