Because too many wannabe American photographers travel to countries with brown-skinned people to shoot stories when there is a lot to work with here in the US. This has been a criticism of your work in the past, and yet here it is again. I have been under the impression that Roy Stryker’s FSA photographers during the great Depression from 1935-44 inspired photographers a generation later to go forth and shoot social realism and anti-poverty images. I think the FSA inspired street photographers like Lee Friedlander, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson, and others when they discovered that our supposedly ordinary lives were anything but. There is a lot to work with here and a lot could be done to show mainstream Americans that not all that much has changed between the 1930s and right now. Why do I think photographers like you do this? Because there are fewer rights to privacy in Honduras and anywhere south of the Rio Grande, than there are in Oklahoma or say Indiana. It is more exciting to go to a foreign country than it is to drive to a location a few states away and work with Americans to show that life here can be as brutal as life in Central America. Very few photographers have gone to great lengths to honor the people of a host country by shooting striking images which bring a host country’s troubles to our attention. I know you are a dedicated photographer and I also know you do not have to shoot brown-skinned kids to make your point. Poverty (no matter where ) will never be eradicated and most especially not here in the US where the streets are supposedly paved with gold. Jan On Jan 4, 2014, at 3:41 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
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