This morning I was looking for something to stimulate me, get me going and I got the juice to write this blog entry from looking at some photography. Surfing around the web I ended up on the website of James Nachtwey and was reminded of the power of journalistic documentary photography and also what a theatrical bubble we live in here in the US. A bubble evidenced by how enthralled we are by hundreds of articles about the lives of Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen. And please don't think that I am dismissing the tragedy of drug addiction because I know it all too well but the way that celebrity drug addiction is used as theater here in the states is ridiculous. We do not "witness" pain and suffering. We make fun of it. But if you look closely at James Nachtwey's photographs you will witness real suffering, some of which exists here in the bubble too.
If we can just take your eyes off of American Idol for a moment and pay attention to world around us. Maybe we can begin to see who we are and the world we live in a bit more clearly and be moved to real change .....
Check out WITNESS. It got me moving this morning.
http://www.jamesnachtwey.com/
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