Monday, 16 September 2013
A Mumbwa sidewalk, Zambia
A common criticism of documentary photography is that it ‘constructs a victim for its always privileged audience in terms of class, ethnicity, gender or other social category, […] and the dignity of the subject […] is not guaranteed by any particular viewer (Bate, 62). Just such a negative approach has misplaced aid and development for many years and now there is a need for a new photographic response. ~ Peter Langmead in Postcards from Zambia
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