Restoration is a metaphor
In an earlier blog entry I discussed the importance of metaphor and promised to say more about how this applies to justice. Here, finally, are more thoughts on metaphors and justice. The following points are inspired by James Geary’s book, I Is An Other: 聽The Secret Life or Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way....
Metaphors matter – in photography and in justice
Our metaphors matter 鈥� in photography and in justice As a photographer, I鈥檝e often reflected on how frequently photographs serve to divide rather than create connections between people.聽 It is so tempting to emphasize the 鈥渙therness鈥� of subjects rather than what we have in common.聽 As a result, photographs often leave subjects feeling degraded and....