Can it be a general rule for photographers to not be insensitive when thinking of concepts for shoots? Because this Facebook photo set by 7AM Rant is poverty porn at its finest.
The album titled “Grungy” features a model wearing tattered clothing, grease on her arms, and her hair in disarray. She was shot at junk yards and posing with a white sack as if she was a street kid. There were also shots where she’s begging on the street and getting change from a taxi driver.
Tell me, what is so “grungy” about using impoverished communities as a backdrop and the people as props to low-key sexualize a photo shoot? This isn’t art, it’s poverty porn—meaning it exploits poor people’s conditions for the sake of generating sympathetic reaction or clout.
Netizens were also furious over this insensitive display.
Today in The Audacity of Some People: using poverty as a shoot concept ????
ALSO, WHY ARE SOME PEOPLE DEFENDING THIS?????? pic.twitter.com/29drKslBvE
— Kir (@KIRiosityy) May 1, 2019
poverty porn pa rin? this late in 2019? anong thought process? meron ba? how can poverty be chic, ganoon? https://t.co/Yo8dlmTfHQ
— sexy traffic cone (@wingedfyre) May 1, 2019
https://twitter.com/ChismisNiAris/status/1123759612224856065
How about you? What are your thoughts on this?
Photo courtesy of Pixabay
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