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Taylor Lorenz: There’s Nothing Wrong With Posing for Photos at Chernobyl (The Atlantic)
Influencer-style pictures are simply the way we document our lives now.
Beyond pointing out the fact that the original tweet is a sensational fabrication designed to spark outrage—which is really unfortunate and bad!—this argument seems too simplistic, too much of a “Actually you're wrong, this is fine and how we do things now” hot take.
Sure, one can take selfies at sites of tragedy, but we can also question and examine how this all came to be: What is an ‘influencer?’ What effects do they have on audiences and subjects? Is this ‘ruin porn?’ How does publicly available life-documentation (i.e. Instagram) differ from the limited availability of the personal printed photo album of the past?
Combining hundreds of landmark snapshots into one ghostly, layered photo.
“Series of photographic works entitled ‘Photo Opportunities’, from hundreds of snapshots of tourist locations found on the Internet. By collecting and then bringing together successive layers of around a hundred similar ‘photo souvenirs’, these images conjure up questions about representation and memory of places.”
Beautiful photographs, at once empty and full. This set is called "Silent World" by whoever put this page together, but I can't find any reference to that collection on Kenna's website, so I think this is a fan mashup.