How do you cope with the guilt that you're using suffering of other people to make money/recognition/fame?
>>4394285Give back to the online photo community by offering free tips and advice from time to time
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>>4394296What is your point? That all photographers are weirdo voyeurs
>>4394296based>>4394297how you doin Susan
>>4394285i blame (you) for letting it happen.
>>4394285Salgado does give back tho
>>4394300That disgusted me. Fuck this shithole of a planet
what are the alternatives?break yourself to document the suffering of others? ignore the suffering?
>>4394370>break yourself to document the suffering of others?This is what Alec Soth does. He present himself as a loser dork. Self pity to manipulate the game is a clever move(until someone look through you), innit?
>>4394285he chose to work at that mine. He could go out and live off the land. It's not suffering he would rather do that than the alternative.
>>4394375If you're in pain is it okay if some photographer shove a camera in your face and take a photo?
>>4394382whos going to stop him? There is no morality, just how much violence you are willing to commit. People willing to commit more violence usually get their way. Having pointless discussions on the internet about whether or not someone should 'be allowed' to do something is retarded and impotent.
so do you do something to help? or do you think ignoring it is more helpful
>>4394382>shove a camera in your facewhy use such hyperbolic phrasing if it was actually bad? it's not even close to anyone's face. getting photographed is the least violent thing happening to the guys in OP pic. also i dare say if i and everyone in my town were all breaking our backs every day for scraps, i'd want someone with the necessary platform and resources to document the absurd desperation of this situation>>4394294based if true
>>4394385If your implying there is value in 'raising awareness' you're sadly mistaken. Literally the words "raising awareness" -to bring to the attention of a higher power who can do something about the matter, except the problem is that the higher power with the capacity to do something about the suffering is the organization profiting from and perpetuating the suffering. Whether or not someone photographs something is a time wasting question designed to shift blame away from people who have organized the systems of suffering onto photographers. It's a question which benefits the system.
>>4394386>>4394387Nice answers
>>4394388thanks :)
>>4394389No thank you anon. I was trying to solve this puzzle in my head from almost a year now. >Whether or not someone photographs something is a time wasting question designed to shift blame away from people who have organized the systems of suffering onto photographers. It's a question which benefits the system.This clicked it for me
>>4394393It's the most common trick that people in power use. They make you forget that there are real, actual people are behind the suffering. They convince you to blame other people who are equally powerless to keep you from remembering. This is why voting is such a powerful illusion. The state is doing things you don't like, but instead of blaming the individual people at the state doing those things. You blame the people who voted 'wrong' meanwhile the state does whatever it wants. Because they aren't beholden to the population because you'll always blame someone else for their actions.Anyway, I'm glad I could help. But the reality is grim.
