Photography

I am not a specialist in photography but I can to point out that sometimes I feel an attraction to ‘the art’ of take photos. Depending on the case I enjoy to seeing photos too, but it’s very difficult to me to say: “that is my favorite picture” or “I really love the work of this photographer”.

In my room I have a collage that I made in a long afternoon of looking trough in familiar photo albums. In that albums I found very olds images that are surprising to me in which I appears in my grandmother one’s arms when I was a baby, for example.

Moreover, I really like pictures taken in soccer matches and rock concerts. Photos that include rock stars in normal situations like playing guitar at home, or recording a song in studio are interest to me. Besides those kinds of photos, in the sports case I like pictures that depict some cultural expressions like soccer ‘barra bravas’ in Latin America, in which it shows supporter’s manifestations in his neighborhoods, and also his flags or canticles.  

In connection with the above, a photo that I have recorded on mind is that was taken while the planes smashing the World Trade Center in New York on September 11^th of 2001. The photography capacity to catch a historical moment trough the capture of and objective in the photo that depicts what these moments was lived by the persons who’s lived the “terroristic attack” as it was called.

That kind of photos are taken by common people as well as professionals but the talent is the same, essentially in order to a faithful representation of a historical moment.  

Pedophilia In The Church

Certainly this topic involves a difficult in the moment that we want to express an opinion.  The pedophilia in the church currently has taken headlines on Chilean press because of the called ‘Karadima case’.

The ethic debate was opened by that case because were the most painful situation about sexual abuse that Catholic Church has must to face up as institution.

Is most difficult even to set an opinion about if molester cases are an exception or not. To me, molester cases are an exception which must to be raised and analyzed deeply. Catholic Church should to learn about that and must to ask herself about her mission in the world.

I neither believe in the Catholic God nor her doctrine, and I think persons can commit mistakes. Every human act occurs because of something. The deviation could obey to a mental disorder, to a weak concept about human relationships.

We can see, according to some approaches that the term ‘pedophilia’ has a range of definitions though the International Classification of Diseases defines pedophilia as a disorder of adult behavior in which there is a sexual for children of pre-pubertal or early pubertal age.

In that sense, I don’t want to justify the attitude but I think that molesters shouldn’t be consider like persons who acts in absolutely emptiness but some conditions operates as decisive factors to motivates these kind of behavior or disorder.   

We as a society should be on quest of that factors and we should to repudiate this kind of irregular practices on though social institutions. Pedophilia is finally a crime but solution is not the jail only.