I have to agree that this photo truely captures the feeling of poverty and the pain that certain people have to go through on their daily lives in the streets.

The conditions of the environment especially help to back this up, along with the heavy emotion expressed in the begger as they are very low. I also particularly love the perspective as decribed in the previous critique and I totally agree upon it. It's one of the main points of interest that unleashes the important feeling you get when you look at this photo. It's an extremily good effort. Very well done.

It's the perspective of this piece that really helps capture the emotional aspect of it. The artist decided to get down to the beggar's level, which makes the viewer share the beggar's world for just a moment, to contemplate a life of poverty life verses a more well-to-do one. What does poverty look like? Well, it looks like this.

All the elements of the photograph help to heighten the central story. The black and white truly makes it "black and white": It helps get down to the point faster without any distractions. The cracks and the rubble strewn across the ground also magnify this sense of a world broken by a penniless pocket. Overall the image is very gritty and very real, and tells a story that both instructs and enlightens.

Brilliant.