An Embedded Photographer Empowers the Poor – NYTimes.com

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An Embedded Photographer Empowers the Poor

A Bangladeshi photographer who grew tired of seeing poverty portrayed in the usual ways had a brainstorm: He lived with his subjects and had them collaborate with him.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/an-embedded-photographer-empowers-the-poor/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog

Scenes of poverty are inescapable in a country like Bangladesh, where Western media and charities use them to generate outrage, sympathy and — sometimes — donations. That bothered Shehab Uddin, a former newspaper photographer in Bangladesh who knew there was more to the story than downtrodden people victimized by poverty, not to mention photojournalists.