Pandemic, photography, and psychological distance – Columbia Journalism Review

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Pandemic, photography, and psychological distance

Decisions made by photojournalists and their editors define traumatic events in the cultural consciousness. Throughout coverage of COVID-19, many news outlets have published photographs that reiterate racist tropes, suggest a false gap between “East” a

via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/opinion/covid-19-photos-distance-bias.php

DECISIONS MADE BY PHOTOJOURNALISTS and their editors define traumatic events in the cultural consciousness. Throughout coverage of COVID-19, many news outlets have published photographs that reiterate racist tropes, suggest a false gap between “East” and “West,” and fail to engage a fuller range of human efforts to respond to a pandemic.