Cell
In these cell phone photographs, taken from the daily newspaper, an energy is created by colliding vantage points: victims and perpetrators, innocents and traitors, onlookers and actors.
Jammed together are all the happenings in the news: political rallies, car crashes, domestic disputes and military insurgencies.
A common thread of pathos emerges.
And the cellphone's rough quality adds to the pictures' immediacy, making it harder to look away—even though we might want to.
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We feel somehow we shouldn’t gawk
but how could we not
So we do
At what’s tangled, amiss
At what stares back
at us as if through
the lens of a camera
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