On the Border Family Separation Crisis: There are Enough Pictures Now – Reading The Pictures

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On the Border Family Separation Crisis: There are Enough Pictures Now – Reading The Pictures

I know enough to be skeptical that pictures of abuse will call people to action. And yet, that appears to be what is happening right now.

via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2018/06/border-separation-photos/

There is, however, a powerful urge to see, a demand for pictures that is both catalyzed by the pictures we do have and premised on the idea that seeing pictures will spark action.