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DAY 60 | SOCIAL & POLITICAL COMMENTARY |
Financial Disaster
VISUALLY DESCRIBING WHAT WENT WRONG
As far as national financial disasters go, photographing them presents a problem—how many photographs of desperate faces, empty pockets, and “for sale” signs convey the real issue? A photojournalist’s job is to illustrate and capture the moment but when the moment is something that happens behind the scenes, internally, and is so deeply rooted and not fully understood by those perpetuating it, much less those being affected, how does one explain it in a photograph? Economic disasters, which financial disasters are, are not a visually ripe topic. ...
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