Feeling Theory

‘I was dumbfounded when a student responded with genuine tears of relief, there in the seminar, to the suggestion that there was a theoretical (ie. political) discourse that affirmed and articulated the extreme tension he often felt when assigned to photograph people living with poverty, sickness or exclusion. That this ethical unease – the struggle to negotiate responsibly the power relationship between photographer and subject – had a name (broadly, the ‘politics of representation’), was for him a source of freedom. It equipped him to be a better photographer.’  

Read Jenny Pollard’s full post here. Interesting stuff.