Photography too often confirms preconceptions and distances the reader from more nuanced realities. The people in the frame are often depicted as too foreign, too exotic, or simply too different to be easily understood. The reader is spared, the icons are repeated, and photojournalism begins to resemble the repetitive nature of a religious service, enacting and reenacting the ongoing drama of suffering and redemption while the reader is encouraged to remain in the pews. Fred Ritchin