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in the world with its own importance.

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These are children from the Caribbean island, of St. Kitts.

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They are sons and daughters of plantation workers.

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I would imagine the progression from these beautiful amazing children...

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to a grown, that would be just as happy...

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because it was paradise.

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But their parents were very sad, tired, weary people...

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who worked 16 hour shifts in the sugar fields.

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I kept thinking about what was missing in the transition...

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from a childhood like that to being very sad grownups.

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And it was sugar.

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The sweetness was taken from those children.

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When I came back to New York I started drawing their faces with sugar...

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I realized that I could make volumes with that.

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It was quite beautiful.

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I shot these with a camera. People from the New York Times...

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wrote a review about it and later, the Museum of Modern Art...

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invited me to be part of the new photography show.

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So it changed my career entirely...

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the work that I did with these children.