- The camera in your hand is not a passport for you to be a moron… it’s the fucking opposite. You now have a reason to go somewhere and to belong. Don’t screw it up.
- Do you know what happens when you give white kids a camera? They come back with photos of little black kids throwing up gang signs. True story. When I was teaching at Yale, every single privileged mother fucker went out to a poor neighborhood and came back with photos of little kids throwing up gang signs. I didn’t even know what they were doing. I thought they all had arthritis.
Didn’t I say no bums? This is someone who does not seem to share your white supremacist views. They are people YOU have power over and I told you not to photograph them. And you were a coward about this shot. You think you’re going to get away with that? Give him a bell, just for being a prick. If you’re interested in photographing people of color or people who live out on the street then you’re going to have to pay the price to tell us something about them. GET IN THEIR FACE. Show us that you’re moved. GET IN THEIR FACE. Show us their face. That's spot fucking on. I love when someone will call out privileged shit like that. They're people, not some disaster porn you can look at as an object and not connect with for some weird misguided, first-world pseudo-martyrdom-by-volunteerism. I love this guy.You did NOT photograph a homeless person.