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07-30-2015, 05:30 PM
A Vietnamese girl running from a cloud (http://www.npr.org/2012/06/03/154234617/napalm-girl-an-iconic-image-of-war-turns-40) of napalm. A police dog viciously attacking (http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2013/01/on-the-wrong-side-of-history-further-thoughts-on-an-iconic-civil-rights-photograph/) a black man during a 1963 Civil Rights Protest in Birmingham, AL. The Twin Towers burning (http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2013/09/11/iconic-911-photos.html#42d8538c-4ce2-4cf9-9bce-6946c72dcfa7) against a bright blue sky.
The most iconic pictures in photojournalism are either violent or depressing. For aspiring photojournalists, they're also the first types of photographs we want to emulate.
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Photo by Millie Christie-Dervaux
A couple years ago, when I started experimenting with photography myself, I tried to think of any war zones close to New York I could visit. Since there weren't any immediate places that came to mind I trained my lens on the inequality I saw everyday: the homeless. Juxtaposing their appearance and wealthy-looking passers by or luxury fashion billboards seemed like an incisive way to show New York's absurd wealth discrepancy.
My gut told me I was wrong every time, but I knew street photography legal and a celebrated genre of documentary photography. After a couple months of snapping random shots of people in the street, I tried to discreetly photograph a homeless woman sitting on the corner of West 4th street. I angled the camera from my hip, but she heard the shutter. She scrambled to her feet, yelling "Get the fuck out of my face, bitch!" I was already halfway across the street, cheeks burning in shame.
"You're at best a passive observer and at worst a predator," Wendy Syfret, an associate editor at Vice, recently wrote (http://www.vice.com/read/stop-taking-pictures-of-homeless-people), addressing the photographers who submit pictures of homeless people to Vice in the hopes of getting published. "Homelessness isn't unusual or amazing," she wrote. "It's not a surreal moment in time that you can capture and use to illustrate that the world is a brain-splittingly cruel place."
This post, by Millie Christie-Dervaux (https://www.slantnews.com/user/857a7933-c31e-41c9-9cee-9776a05f08c2), originally appeared on Slant (https://www.slantnews.com/). Read the full story here (https://www.slantnews.com/story/2015-07-29-your-pictures-of-the-homeless-arent-gritty-theyre-exploitative). -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. (http://start.westnet.ca/newstempch.php?article=terms.html/) It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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The most iconic pictures in photojournalism are either violent or depressing. For aspiring photojournalists, they're also the first types of photographs we want to emulate.
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-07-29-1438188295-2664737-IMG_9878-thumb.JPG (http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-07-29-1438188295-2664737-IMG_9878.JPG)
Photo by Millie Christie-Dervaux
A couple years ago, when I started experimenting with photography myself, I tried to think of any war zones close to New York I could visit. Since there weren't any immediate places that came to mind I trained my lens on the inequality I saw everyday: the homeless. Juxtaposing their appearance and wealthy-looking passers by or luxury fashion billboards seemed like an incisive way to show New York's absurd wealth discrepancy.
My gut told me I was wrong every time, but I knew street photography legal and a celebrated genre of documentary photography. After a couple months of snapping random shots of people in the street, I tried to discreetly photograph a homeless woman sitting on the corner of West 4th street. I angled the camera from my hip, but she heard the shutter. She scrambled to her feet, yelling "Get the fuck out of my face, bitch!" I was already halfway across the street, cheeks burning in shame.
"You're at best a passive observer and at worst a predator," Wendy Syfret, an associate editor at Vice, recently wrote (http://www.vice.com/read/stop-taking-pictures-of-homeless-people), addressing the photographers who submit pictures of homeless people to Vice in the hopes of getting published. "Homelessness isn't unusual or amazing," she wrote. "It's not a surreal moment in time that you can capture and use to illustrate that the world is a brain-splittingly cruel place."
This post, by Millie Christie-Dervaux (https://www.slantnews.com/user/857a7933-c31e-41c9-9cee-9776a05f08c2), originally appeared on Slant (https://www.slantnews.com/). Read the full story here (https://www.slantnews.com/story/2015-07-29-your-pictures-of-the-homeless-arent-gritty-theyre-exploitative). -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. (http://start.westnet.ca/newstempch.php?article=terms.html/) It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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