Interesting essay on the changing face and roles of photojournalism.
Unconcerned but not Indifferent by Adam Broomberg
"Roland Barthes summed up the analgesic effect of looking at images of horror when he wrote “someone has shuddered for us; reflected for us, judged for us; the photographer has left us nothing - except a simple right of intellectual acquiescence”. Put another way, we look at events in photographs and feel relieved that they’re not happening anywhere near us."
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