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Not that familiar with korean, but I think this picture puts it succinctly why I don't like to photograph people.

한 세계적 사진 대회에서 우승했다는 사진(왼쪽). 그리고 그 사진이 찍힌 방식(오른쪽). 이것이 내가 나를 ‘여행 사진가’라고 부르지 않는 이유이며, 많은 국내 여행 사진가들에 비판적인 이유다. 몰려다니며 동물원 구경하듯 사람을 찍어댄다. 피사체에 대한 배려없는 사진은 잔인한 폭력에 불과하다. pic.twitter.com/sUU8w0BuZw

— 케이채 (K. Chae) (@kchae) May 12, 2019

Street photography/ travel photography wise, I have often found it exploitative for people to take photos of people who are "interesting" to them. They basically treating the people they are taking photos of as a commodity. It's frankly arrogant and self centered to me, that they see someone else in a plight and the first thing they do is to surround them and take photos like they're a museum exhibit.

It's simply demeaning.

The latest enstars event, once again, is coming for my blood.



I tell myself that it's better to at least buy physical merch rather than grind for virtual cards but the primitive part of my brain is winning this time.

Doing Day 2 of Snowflake challenge made me realize just how many fics have disappeared off the face of the internet...time for me to do some digging and start actually keep tracking of them, instead of going to the search engine every time I want to read them again.