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via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/the-african-gaze/
Western photojournalism played and still plays a major role in the continued misrepresentation of Africa. It doesn’t matter at all whether photojournalists went or go to Africa with the best of intentions (as they typically do); what matters is that many of them appear to be oblivious of the issue at hand.
https://cphmag.com/the-african-gaze/