Posh corner, Philadelphia


The plight of the homeless is low-hanging fruit for a camera, and perhaps many or most of us in the early moments of the hobby succumb to the story. I did. Should the picture be avoided because it’s bordering on cliché? Or is it deemed cliché because we’re tired of seeing it? This is the corner of 18th & Walnut Sts., one of the city’s toniest. Only one person in this frame is really hungry. (1989)


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  1. […] do we think? Exploitative, like frames of the destitute? Should she not be seen nor remembered because she’s developmentally disabled, or should I have […]

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