Limelight is back in action, ready to feature more under-appreciated artists!

Each Limelight, I pick a theme (at random, yes), and then I go searching the depth of dA to find under-appreciated works that fall under that theme. Usually, the works you see here have 15-20 favourites or less.

We've done all sorts of themes--seen everything from painted trailers to Polaroids--but this time around, our theme is going a more serious direction.

Background: This morning I went to Global Rich List, where I found out that I am approximately the 876,500,352 richest person on the face of this planet, in the top 14.6 percentile.

More than 95% of the people of this planet are poorer than I am. Me. The high school senior with a part-time retail job.

That really puts things in perspective, doesn't it?

You may or may not know that I started a few projects around here about poverty. The way I see it, if I'm in the top 15%, I am in a unique position to contribute to the lives of more than 90% of the earth's population. We all are.

That's where Project Compassion and the Don't Eat Dirt project began, in realizing that even a little of what we all have is a whole lot to the impoverished people of this world.

So what's this Limelight's theme? Children and Poverty.
You'll see poverty in the lives of people from all places and of all ages, but in keeping with the nature of PC and the DED project, you'll see a lot of children. Why? Because every two seconds a child dies of starvation. That's the ugly face of poverty showing clearly.

Poverty can be found thousands of miles away from you, or maybe just downtown. It's everywhere. And the incredible thing is that we're not powerless to change it--we can all do something. I hope that as you take a look at these awesome works, you'll be encouraged to give a little something to somebody who needs it: not as a guilt trip, but because you can actually do something about their condition.

Photography

Other Art

I hope you enjoyed those--go love on the artists.

Your Limelight

Know of some pieces that deserve some time in the limelight for this theme? Leave the links in your comments on this article. They'll be sorted through, and some of your suggestions will find their way to the next Limelight!

Guidelines for Your Limelight suggestions:
Suggest submissions from all galleries--don't feel confined to photography or digital/traditional art.
No nudity, excessive gore, or other mature content. [Why? For one thing, I can't see them...]
Your Limelight suggestions must follow the theme for the current article.
Find submissions that haven't already been widely recognized!

All YL suggestions are subject to my discretion.

Don't forget to favourite!

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Lomography
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