This hero is so hardly told he’s a legend for that alone. In the 1870’s, he was a major proponent against poverty, in New York City. It wasn’t until the invention of flash lighting techniques was he able to even photograph the dark images of the human condition that he was trying to expose.
This man needs to be celebrated. In one regard to his recognition, in the other to carrying on his work. The real challenge to the latter is actually getting images of the other side of the human condition to where it matters. Thanks to the Internet, we’re able to take media to people in their domains of ignorance. However, it still needs a shot at the rest of the masses.
Recall how the news anchors were forced to openly admit that the US had never had to see or acknowledge the true poverty crisis in the US, after the entire world had seen teh horrors of Hurricane Katrina.
Avenues such as CNN’s iReport can be used for trying to reach the rest of the masses. The real key isn’t merely finding images online and reposting them, it’s in actually getting down into the grim yourself, and for everyone to be flooding the Internet streams with new media.
Poverty is on its way to us all if we don’t stand up, People, and this could be a way to motivate people into resisting the growing trend, and the concept of poverty altogether.