Dehumanize them
The camera shutter is a guillotine. It severs the head from the history, the body from the soul, leaving only the aesthetic of suffering to be consumed over coffee. We walk among them like gods made of linen and digital sensors. We do not see people; we see variables. We see a mouth and call it a hunger statistic; we see a pair of hands and call them a labor metric. To give them a name would be to invite a ghost to dinner, so we keep them anonymous, a blurred background of “diverse” shadows that validate our own bright, … Continue reading Dehumanize them