Why do female photographers go over mountains and send the first photo to people who have never taken a photo?

Can you imagine life without photos? In the era of self-portraits, when our social life has been based on endless photo sharing, it seems to be a thing that has passed through the times. And some people, who are extremely poor all their lives, have never seen their faces appear on photographic paper. After constantly meeting such people, Berta, a female photojournalist from Lithuania.

Tillman Tate decided to embark on a special journey of "bringing people the first photos"-in these photos, too many stories about time were revealed.

It all started in Baltar a few years ago.

During Tillman Tate's trip to Asia, she found some people who had never taken photos. They want her to take pictures and show them their pictures. Some people will ask her to develop the photos, but she is traveling and can't develop them, which can only disappoint them. "I often feel guilty about my subjects. I took photos, and if I can't send them the published articles, they will never see them. "

Just as people who have never taken photos are curious about Berta's camera, Berta is also curious about people who have never taken photos or seen movies and their spiritual world. She said that she had read susan sontag, an American writer and art critic.

Sontag), and was deeply inspired: "Taking pictures of people is infringement. They can't see themselves from your perspective. They will never know what you think of them; It turns people into objects, objects that can be symbolized. " Berta wants to change this idea of taking pictures. She wants to help those people know themselves, let them see their photos and bring them new experiences. "So we are not symbolizing them, but returning to themselves and letting them see themselves in a way they have never seen before."

Inspired by her trip to Asia, Berta and her partner Lucas Cwierz boarded a flight to South America. They trudged all the way from remote areas of Colombia to Ecuador, determined to take pictures of people who had never been photographed in their lives and give them a gift-their own "first photo".

"We have been recording and sharing our lives and uploading millions of photos every day. But there are still people who don't have a picture. This opens the door for our story. Starting with a simple portrait, we can discuss poverty, body image or technology together. "