tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840044689402718651.post2779863277574590383..comments2023-10-02T00:48:41.996-07:00Comments on decolonizing solidarity: decolonizing our use of photographyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840044689402718651.post-33908000505027749602010-03-26T00:20:24.887-07:002010-03-26T00:20:24.887-07:00I went to a seminar in Sydney today that focussed ...I went to a seminar in Sydney today that focussed on the question "why is the global face of povetry a woman's?". It was partly presented by the international NGO ActionAid, and there was a tall ActionAid banner behind the speakers featuring a skinny, apparently African woman, standing side on with her baby in a papoose. The opening image of the seminar (chosen by the seminar's organisers) was an apparently Indian woman, also very skinny, drinking chai while her baby breastfed. The discussion was nuanced and thoughtful, i.e. not as generic perhaps as the images. But I couldn't stop thinking about the presence of the two images in our discussion! What effect does this generically black, hungry-looking woman with her baby have on perceptions of first world superiority and such? Do I just think she's hungry because I have been visually conditioned this way via all the pitiful looking children on World Vision ads? Would we show an image of a white woman breast-feeding? I think these questions might be implicated in decolonizing photography.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com