Summaries-Student1512

It seems counterintuitive that the photographers sent to Haiti are being demonized for their photographic evidence of the disaster. 

Following the aftermath of an earthquake in Haiti, other instances of violence occurred, particularly the shooting of fifteen year old Fabienne Cherisma. Caught by a bullet fired by police attempting to ward off looters, Fabienne Cherisma devastatingly lost her life. This tragedy was further documented by dispatched photographers from various organizations.

The controversy of the photographs involving Cherisma particularly stems from the notion that such coverage will only last as an exploitative headline, rather than a call to action for others to help in the debilitating aftermath. As such, the various photographers have come to be viewed as dystopian in nature. In such a way that they’re documenting of the aftermath has been villainized. 

Though, this begs the question, is what these photographers did truly wrong? These photographers, particularly the ones who documented Cherisma’s death, not only captured the aftermath of the earthquake, yet the humanistic chaos that inherently follows. While possibly morally incorrect, such a photograph encapsulates how one tragedy domino affects others in our society. As such, it was not only the earthquake to be documented, and not only the deaths from said earthquake either, yet the true inherent chaos and brutality following such an event.

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1 Response to Summaries-Student1512

  1. davidbdale's avatar davidbdale says:

    You’ve done a wonderful job to summarizing the events of the earthquake and the violence that followed, Student1512, while at the same time characterizing the actions of the photographers to serve a purpose. That was the assignment in a nutshell. Congratulations.

    I’ll confine my remarks to some grammar and syntax notes in the form of corrections, which I will highlight in bold. Please take them to heart. If all your strong work continues to suffer blemishes like these, you’ll be doing yourself and your readers a disservice.

    The controversy of the photographs, particularly those involving Cherisma, stems from the notion that such coverage will last only as long as an exploitative headline, rather than as a call to action for others to help in the debilitating aftermath. For their part, various photographers have been villainized for documenting the aftermath of the earthquake like characters in a dystopian novel or movie.  

    However, such treatment raises the question, “Is what these photographers did truly wrong?” The photographers who documented Cherisma’s death captured not only the aftermath of the earthquake, but also the human chaos that inevitably follows. While possibly morally incorrect, taking such photographs encapsulates how one tragedy domino-affects others in our society. Not only the earthquake needed to be documented, and not only the deaths from the earthquake either, but also the inevitable chaos and brutality that follow such events.

    You may stand on an already fine grade, Student1512, or you may revise. Put this post into Grade Please or back into Feedback Please following any significant improvements.

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