Smiling Black Maggie or Margret for the Cross, Dublin, Ireland 1997

Smiling Black Maggie or Margret for the Cross, Dublin, Ireland 1997 - The Story behind the Photograph
I was working on assignment in Ireland having left to live in Holland 13 years earlier and walking down the main street O'Connell Street I came across this lady and living in Holland you don't see this. I asked her if I could take her photo and she was ok with that but the background I was not happy with so I saw Easons bookstore and she kindly walked and smiled for the shot.
When she left I asked a few people around me who she was and one man in a very flat Dublin accent and voice raised said "That Ould ones name is "BLACK MAGGIE" and the newspaper seller next to Eason's said she was Margret for the Cross thus the title.......Black Maggie or Margret for the Cross,

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Also in: The Story behind the Photograph

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Dharamshala, India, 1989
From Maiko to Geisha, (Geiko), Smiling Lady, Kyoto, Japan
Majestic Taj, Taj Mahal, India, 2007
Rembrandt Girl, India 1989
Untitled, Gujarat, India 1989
The Smiling Monk, Tibet 2004
Schoonheid, Spakenburg, Holland 2010
El Niňo,  La Paz,  Bolivia 1997
Old Hassidic Jew, Jerusalem, Israel, 2008
Untitled, Lombok, Indonesia 2001
Travis the Hutterite, Canada 1996
Cheif Bubblegum, Navajo Indian, Shiprock, New Mexico
Painted Handicap Begger, India 1989
Bina McLoughlin, Queen of Connemara, Galway, Ireland 1997
No Choice, India 1989

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