From His Own Perspective: The Seductive Power of the Instagram Migrant — BagNews

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From His Own Perspective: The Seductive Power of the Instagram Migrant – Reading The Pictures

Of course, we would hope that the migrant diaspora in our media diet would reflect the greatest realism, but that’s a whole different thing than the migrant telling his or her own story, taking his or her own pictures, and controlling his or her own narra

via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2015/08/the-main-thing-the-insta-migrant-had-going-for-it/

To be perfectly honest, I think we’re better off for this controversy, if just to punctuate this point. For the past year or so, a popular story concept in photojournalism — to the extent it might even qualify as a genre — has been that of “migrant portraiture.” Some of it has been unusually empathetic. Some of it has engaged provocation. Some has gone an overtly artful route. Some, to be honest, has been cringeworthy. Here is a sampling with links, and you can consider the spectrum for yourself: