Peter DiCampo’s iPhone Photos of Africa

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Picturing Everyday Life in Africa

Too often the subjects of images of Africa seem to be reduced to symbols — viewers do not encounter them as fully rounded human beings, rarely seeing journalistic images of the middle class, artists or the cultural heritage of African countries. Peter DiC

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/picturing-everyday-life-in-africa/

I realized that I had to keep doing it, because there’s a constant barrage of imagery of misery, despair and hopelessness, and more than any of those things — helplessness, the idea that Africans need to be saved