It’s important to realise how lucky you are if you can choose your favourite cuisine for dinner, decide whether you’re a MAC or PC and earn a salary that even as a photographer dwarfs that of a family here in Bangladesh and that most certainly puts food on your table and clothes on your back.
That said I’m not sure the photograph at the top of this post is an appropriate way to approach these stories even though it is a method widely used in the media.
The stero-typical poor …………(insert nationality here) person staring blankly at the camera and then converted using the ‘Poverty’ filter in photoshop that we see more often than a hipstamatic print.
Poverty’s not so black and white? | we produce beautifully crafted multimedia
Another eye-opening article from Duckrabbit.
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Yes! Thank you. So true.
Even seemingly progressive, social-justice-minded nonprofits and other organizations fall into this trap, which is astonishing given the work they set out to do with/for the individuals they (mis)represent through photography. If they understood the people and the communities they aim to serve, would they really choose to represent them that way?
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