July 26, 2013

"I failed for a long time in this project.... In some ways, really poor places are quite easy to photograph...."



The photographer, Aaron Huey, realizes he must take a point of view. The result is, of course, propaganda. Beautiful propaganda.

Imagine if he'd chosen a different point of view. What would that propaganda have looked like?

Clearly, from the artistic perspective, Huey chose the best point of view.