Is this the most banal photo project on human rights ever?
Written by duckrabbitMMM, lets get tonnes of affluent,. mainly white Americans to have their photos taken all the same way with the logo ‘I am equal’ stamped onto their hands because that’s just what’s needed to change the world.
Then let’s repeat that in 50 cities around the world over five years at huge cost to a dumb sponsor hopefully the project will never find.
Is this some kind of joke? Can it be anything else? Puke.
Author — duckrabbit
duckrabbit is a production company formed by radio producer/journalist Benjamin Chesterton and photographer David White. We specialize in digital storytelling.
Discussion (18 Comments)
Who tf rubberstamped their baby’s face, and why is the fellow showing us his right nipple?
well, there are two black people there. i counted.
Bloody ridiculous.
Never seen so many people wearing primary colours! Very equal.
Do you girls like the guy showing his nipples?
I do.Tidy.
Everyone does seem very happy though….just look at their glowing auras…
Imagine doing 10000 of those. Tell me its a joke? Not a very funny one, but still a joke? Right?
How come they’re all white? Clearly some are more equal than others.
They should all be 18% grey ideally.
The rimlight, just noticed the rimlight. This could be *lit* on purpose.
Agreed. It is shit.
Compare this meaningless use of a hand gesture to the ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL use of the raised and written hand for James Mackay’s “Even Though I Am Free, I Am Not” portrait project of former Burmese political prisoners.
http://contactcollective.blogspot.com/2010/06/even-though-im-free-i-am-not.html
“The hand gesture is the crucial link between the former political prisoner and the current political prisoner in jail. It is the Buddhist mudhra (hand gesture) called the Abbhya Mudhra which represents ‘fearlessness’ – Buddhism plays a hugely significant role in Burmese culture and society. The name written on the palm is the name of a colleague currently suffering silently in jail in Burma. So this simple symbolic gesture of the palm being shown in the Buddhist Abhaya Mudhra with the name of a current political prisoner written on it becomes a combined act of silent protest, remembrance and fearlessness.”
That is a visual felony.
Stan, I nearly spilled my pint, I laughed so much when I read that. Tell me this is a send up?
It captures rather beautifully the profoundly American conviction that things would be ok, that the world’s problems would be solved, if people would just be nice to one another.
I’m speaking, I hasten to add, as an American.
John, this feels like a crime against both photography and America!
Surely Ali G is behind this? It must be a send up!!!!!!!!
I just sent this link to Robert Hariman http://www.nocaptionneeded.com/. One of Hariman/Lucaites things is portrayals of boots & hands in public culture.
Is there any chance, any chance at all, to get the UN to intercede and condemn this purely on humanitarian grounds? Their timely intervention here could make up for so many of their past failings.