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Issue #1
Who let my fish loose?
""Today's liberal tolerance
towards others,
the respect of otherness
and openness towards
it, is counterpointed by
an obsessive fear of
harassment. In short,
the other is just fine,
but in so far his precedes
is not intrusive,
insofar the other is not
really other... "
Slavoj Zizek
Ifecrisum vit? Ficata deo,
consulin tus inum pratimu
suleste ricit, contidem am,
Cupio egilis o conerfeci
interbi etil vis pro, nique ia
rei perbem nos et L.
United Nations
hires photographers
dedicated to depicting
the refugee crisis
The news that thousands
of refugees and economic
migrants are arriving
on the continent can be
unsettling for a European
public that is still dealing
with the after-effects of
a devastating economic
crisis. “There’s a lot of talk
and fear about refugees
and so it’s critical that
people can see for themselves
what’s happening,”
says Susan Hopper, UN-
HCR's photo editor. “We
choose photographers
who can show that this
refugee is a regular person
who has run out of options
Refugees arriving in Munich central train station
and is being forced to do
something desperate to
protect his or her family.
And when you see photos
of these people’s faces
when they arrive on the
beach in Greece, it clicks.
Seeing how traumatized
and scared these people
are generates empathy
and understanding and
changes attitudes and behaviors.
That’s the connection
we want to make.”
So, going back to the original
ideas by Julian Stallabrass,
what exactly is the
role of an image, and can
these UN-hired photographers
be considered to be
"embaded" journalists of
some sort.
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