As terrifying images and videos keep flooding I think about what’s outside the frame , what we are not invited to see . Above Robert Capas image of a blind camp just south of Tel Aviv in 1950, Robert Capa rarely photographed Palestinians in his two years covering the establishment of the state of Israel , he like all photojournalists had a perspective and an agenda.
“photographs should always be studied in connection to what the shutter sought to keep disconnected from what we are invited to see… when we speak about conditions of systemic violence, we should not look necessarily for photographs of or about systemic violence, but rather explore photographs taken in those zones and decode them outside of imperial epistemologies.” - Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
We are all monsters , shame on all of us . For those who have reached out to my family and I , thank you . These are extremely difficult times .
“It is a frightening thought that man also has a shadow side to him, consisting not just of little weaknesses and foibles, but of a positively demonic dynamism. The individual seldom knows anything of this; to him, as an individual, it is incredible that he should ever in any circumstances go beyond himself. But let these harmless creatures form a mass, and there emerges a raging monster; and each individual is only one tiny cell in the monster’s body, so that for better or worse he must accompany it on its bloody rampages and even assist it to the utmost. Having a dark suspicion of these grim possibilities, man turns a blind eye to the shadow-side of human nature.”
- Carl Jung
Flowers for Sara (from my parents).
A Sara Cwynar Cheeseburger and Fries appreciation post. We came to Paris for work and then @cwynars opened an incredible show in Amsterdam ♥️🍔🍟♥️♥️
