Connecting With Neighbors, in Baghdad or the Bronx

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Connecting With Neighbors, in Baghdad or the Bronx

An exhibition of Michael Kamber’s photographs ponders the relationship between his portraits from the Bronx and from troubled places abroad.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/connecting-with-neighbors-in-baghdad-or-the-bronx/

Photojournalists try to humanize people every day, but especially when we’re covering news, it’s tough. People get reduced to the person being carted off to a hospital or the person shooting the gun or the person grieving at a funeral. Or people waving a clenched fist at a demonstration. These are pictures that I’ve taken hundreds of times. They begin to feel a little bit too impersonal, somehow.