This campaign is very important. Take a look at these pairs of photographs. Its about how the media portrays black people, often presenting a cold and hostile image by the selection and cropping of pictures. Its important to remember that a photograph is a tiny fraction of a second, captured in circumstances unknown to the viewer. It is the reason I try to portray anyone in front of my camera as human and sympathetic. Even when we meet a person ourselves, as philosopher Steven Bachelor says, we are seeing only a few frames of a movie that extends from their pre-natal existence to the moment of their death. How much more so with a still photograph. npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/08/11/339592009/people-wonder-if-they-gunned-me-down-what-photo-would-media-use
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