Flavio Picture Visual Analysis

This picture is black and white of young boy called Flavio, feeding rice to his younger brother Zacarias. My first impression of Flavio’s archive was that it seemed to be a very sad story. This photo shows the horrors of poverty and Flavio’s strength to survive, and even the courage to accept death without even thinking about himself but of his brothers and sisters. I did some research and found out that Flavio is a 12-year-old boy who has the huge responsibility of being an adult. He is able to accept this responsibility while still remaining vibrant and hopeful even though Flavio is suffering from a physical illness, poverty, overwork and worry. Being poor is just as hard on children of the family.
Gordon Parks uses pathos in his photography making the audience feel pity, guilt, and sorrow. In this picture I felt really sad because of the conditions that these two young boys were in, there clothes looks very old and raggedy. The lighting in the background of the picture is dark but majority of the light is on both Flavios and Zacarias face and body, they’re the central focus of the picture. The photo represents Flavio as a very hard working brother or parent to his younger brother Zacarias. It’s amazing to know …show more content…
In the picture the audience is able see the structure of his house is in bad conditions. I was able to find out that Flavio and his family lived in a shack near the top of a mountainside. It was a leaning crumpled place of old planking with a rusted tin roof. Inside of the shack was a stove, which consisted of a rusted, bent top of an old gas range resting on several bricks, a sagging bed and a broken baby’s crib. The shack itself was six by ten feet. The walls were a patch work of misshapen boards with large gaps between them, the floor consisted of rotting layers of grease and dirt, caught shafts of light slanting down through spaces in the roof. A large hole in the corner served as a