I do not have a specific artist to portray, but I read the first article that came up on the great Conscientious blog. This is something I struggle with, with my art alot of time. I like to think emotionally about my photos. My past photos in Intro, were all emotional based. Pictures I took of the place where my mom passed away. This was something that brought tears to my eyes. At first, I didn't want to use my photos I took last semester because they didn't ignite any emotion in me, but in the end they WERE super emotional, because I was super proud of them, and that was an emotion I didn't often have with my art, and it was fantastic.
However, to get back to my point, I was reading an article about the Haiti photography, and they are calling it "disaster porn." The controversy behind submitting photos to the world of the horror that happening around the world. Haiti is a disaster, and I think photography is what has allowed us to see that horror and make us step up and take action. Without reality, and horror shown to us, we have no way of knowing that it is truly "real." I would love to have my work show the problems we face in the world. Homelessness, poverty, abused sex, genocide, drugs etc... Again, back to the emotional side of me I guess.
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