Gen T

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2024

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“The ethics of street photography ” by Gen T

Submitted to Contest #252

The ethics of street photography have long been questioned. I’ve often been asked at galleries, “don’t you think it’s exploitative to take pictures of someone in need?” Or, “doesn’t it make you feel yucky to build a career off of people who may be battling addiction or in the midst of a mental breakdown?” Is it not just as yucky for wildlife photographers to take a photo of the gazelle without warning it of the tiger sitting right behind it? Or the photo of a bombed child weeping as blood runs down their face? Those photos win aw...

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“The Burden” by Gen T

Submitted to Contest #251

The copy of the book showed up in a soggy cardboard box that was left on the doorstep overnight during one of the worst storms of the year. Twenty-two books and fourteen of them had excessive water damage, the five on the bottom layer water-logged being beyond saving. I wish I’d wondered why somebody had been so desperate to abandon these books like a swaddled baby on the steps of a fire station. I wish I’d noticed how the book seemed to be nestled protectively directly in the middle, protected from the soaked pavement below as well as...

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