<sees starving child
>OH. MY. HECKING. GOD. THIS IS THE MOST PERFECT, AWARD WINNING, BREATH TAKING, ATMOSPHERIC, BONE CHILLING, GUT WRENCHING, SPINE TINGLING, THOUGHT PROVOKING, QUESTION ASKING, JAW CLENCHING, SOCIALLY PRESCIENT, CULTURALLY RELEVANT, NAIL BITING, SOUL SHAKING, TROPE SUBVERTING, GENRE REDEFINING, PHOTOGRAPH IVE EVER SEEN
<*sets up camera, takes picture and leaves*
>He told Silva he was shocked by the situation he had just photographed, saying, "I see all this, and all I can think of is Megan", his young daughter.
daily reminder that you dont hate westoids enough
>>767158this is LE BAD because he thought of his daughter being a victim of this?
>>767158While I do think that people's inability to empathise without projecting someone they love into the situation is pretty fucked up, it's hardly a purely American phenomenon is it.
>>767157Is this from the holocaust?
>>767162The Sudan one. Not the Jew one.
>>767157Either childs mother died or she abandoned him. It is not uncommon for mother to leave their children behind.
There is no concrete, objective, universal difference between information and art/entertainment. The man did his job, he documented something. You think you're pissed off at the way "our system" makes people with real pictures of real suffering as if they were just art, but there is no way out of this. You do the same thing whenever you read a history book about the Holocaust.
>>767164why do you always come here coping about "mothers abandoning their children" when that is incredibly rare.
>>767157<*sets up camera, takes picture and leaves*source that he didn't help the kid?
>>767174He apparently tried to shoo the vulture away. The kid survived but eventually died in 2007.
>>767174journalists literally arent supposed to help anyone, because it would be 'unethical' (lmao)
>>767175He did shoo the vulture away.
>>767176Not actually true, there are plenty of cases of journalists actively intervening to help people. It's not like you can get disbarred from journalism. Journalism is still mostly bad, but at least criticize it for the right reasons.
>>767168As rare as ethnic displacements and famines, sure.