Joao Silva: This Is an inspiring story

photoJoao Silva: ‘This Is What I Do. This Is All That I Know.’

By THE NEW YORK TIMES   ...It’s been an amazing voyage of learning — learning about myself, learning about the resilience of the human body and the resilience of the human spirit. Because you just don’t know how strong you truly are until you get pushed to that point where if you go any further you’re not going to come back....I’m a historian with a camera, and hopefully my pictures use the medium to capture history, or to tell a story, or to highlight somebody else’s suffering. That’s ultimately why I continue doing it, and why I want to continue doing it...
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