"It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it. Even so, it will always be the same possibilities, either in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality over the idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their directions, and he awakens them."
- Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is done with you."
- David Foster Wallace
Just doing your jobs, right?
This is sad.
Let’s play a game
Where you have no worth
And I have no shameI needed this photo.
A few months back i commented on the attitude of photo-journalists in the light of human suffering. Does anyone remember the picture of an evidently starving suffering child being hounded by a vulture? Regardless of the law or the situation of things, when do photo-journalists quit being people and become sight-click-flash robots? Pictures like this disgust me why? because the picture being taken will end up in some glossy editorial where the bourgeoisie will stare at the picture and spare a second of thought for the “poor suffering people” and continue on sipping on tea plucked by exploited ‘foreign’ workers while the child here will… see? nothing good comes out of the picture being taken for the child here. When do people draw the line?
how do you know they didn’t help out?
Poverty porn fix..must get.
I couldn’t do this.. I just couldn’t take pictures of someone who looks like they’re suffering and then not help them! I...
movementbaby:nezua:africansunset:thedancingflame:
Let’s play a game Where you have no worth And I have no shame
i never understood how someone could just photograph someone suffering and walk away.