I read Karen Nakamura’s Photoethnography.com regularly, but I haven’t mentioned any of her posts here, before, as our interests don’t often line up. However, her most recent posting is phenomenal and worth the click: Rant: Photography in New Orleans/Houston. Nakamura compares photography and the government response to American poverty in the 1930s to the cover-up of human suffering in New Orleans now.

It gets worse, though: Reporters Without Borders reports that two photojournalists were threatened by police in New Orleans. Journalists have not just been ’systematically prevented… from taking photographs…’; they’ve been treated as the enemy. (This news item courtesy Democracy Now!)

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