An Individuals position in world has a significant impact on how they view the world. Their views on identity, society, and culture are affected by how they live and what they see everyday. When an average American sees the pictures of disaster on the child’s poster on page 500 they are likely to not feel very strong emotions. This is because there is a true disconnect between our situations. A person seeing the poster is not being directly affected but a person who lives in that disaster area will certainly have some strong feelings about the incident. The photographer most likely tried to capture an image that would evoke some emotions and by doing that the photographer could have possibly missed truthfully reporting the event.
How a person reacts to different photos can reveal a lot about that person. If they respond strongly to an event happening far away, they might have some sort of tie to that place. If a person reacts negatively or in an annoyed manner when seeing the “99%” protesters in the streets of America you can deduce that the individual is not in favor of what that movement is doing. How people react to and interpret photograph can show what type of person they are in many aspects. It can tell you whether they are liberal or conservative, have lot of money, or where they are from just to name a few. That is why it is very important for photographers and editors to know what their audience will respond to when choosing photos to run on the front page of a newspaper.
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