Should photojournalists seek out the silver lining? | RESOLVE

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Considering that today is World AIDS Day, this seemed like the perfect time to highlight a new book from photographer Karen Ande, Face to Face: Children of the AIDS Crisis in Africa. Although hardly the first person to document this topic, Karen’s emphasis on telling positive stories is unusual. And her technique presents a hard — but important — question for documentary photographers: Do too many images of suffering make people feel helpless to improve things?

Link: Should photojournalists seek out the silver lining? | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog