DOG DAYS, BOGOTA (photograph by Alec Soth)

My wife and I adopted our baby girl, Carmen Laura, from Bogotá, Colombia. While the courts processed her paperwork, we spent two months in Bogotá waiting to take Carmen home.

在哥伦比亚的波哥大，我和我的妻子收养了一名女婴——卡门.劳拉。在法院处理文件的两个月里，我们一直在波哥大等待着将她带回家。

Carmen's birthmother gave her a book filled with letters, pictures and poems. "I hope that the hardness of the world will not hurt your sensitivity," she wrote, "When I think about you I hope that your life is full of beautiful things."

卡门的生母留给了她一本满是诗歌和插图的书。“我希望这个冰冷的世界无法伤害到纤细的你，”她说道，“当我回想你的时候，希望在你的生活中充满着美好的事物。”

With those words as a mission statement, I began making my own book for Carmen. In photographing the city of her birth, I hope I've described some of the beauty in this hard place.

这些话犹如使命般的宣言，促使我开始着手制作一本书,为了我自己和卡门。在那些记录她出生城市的照片里，我希望自己描绘出了这个冷硬之地的某种美丽。  


                                Alec Soth   

恩，已经是超一流的摄影家了。

duanbican

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