like tbh, it makes me really uncomfortable when white photographers go someplace ~~exotic~~ like india or pakistan and take a picture of a dark-skinned light-eyed child and put it in their portfolio with some bland name like “portrait of a young girl at well in wheat field, manipur, india, 2015.” like what kind of commodification of brown bodies is this?? did you pay this child? did you pay her family? do you know anything about the area you’re in other than the shit you read on wikipedia? do these people mean anything to you past their aesthetic???? please cut out this trend of photographing nameless identityless faces designed to further your artistic experience and start seeing them as real live human beings who exist outside of the boxes you put them in.
