A Picture Says More Than a Thousand Words

ithinkthereforeib — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:08:56 +0000

Look at Picture #6, of a little boy in a Palestinian refugee camp. Heartbreaking if you ask me. It’s also a perfect example of how we see things through a particular lens – such as the lens of the environment we are brought up in (one would just wish that a little child like that wouldn’t know the world in this way just quite yet).
The Lens, by the way, is a relatively new NY Times blog, which focuses on photojournalism specifically. There a many interesting posts, often raising unsettling ethical questions (“Is it acceptable to make art out of human suffering?”) and publishing uncomfortable images (Between Life and Death: Photographing an American Soldier a Moment before His Death).

From elsewhere (Double X, Slate’s recently launched online women’s magazine) comes a provoking article on Pakistani women who come to the US to give birth, just so their child can obtain American citizenship.

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A Picture Says More Than a Thousand Words