Theatre of Cruelty

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Lincoln Clarkes' heroines is a disturbing article to me. The guy took some fascinating pictures of prostitutes in Vancouver BC, but his outlook appears very twisted to me.

I don't think prostitutes are "strong women" or "survivors". Maybe survivors in the sense that someone who's just been shot and is bleeding to death is currently surviving. I also don't care for his dumb play on word "heroines". Plays on words don't do much for me when they're about people who are suffering and going to die.

Everything isn't art, guy. Some things, like young women on drugs, being used by the sex industry, and dying before their time, are real, and it takes more than a spoonful of sugar to make it all better.

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Re: based on the article I can't agree

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His photos speak for themselves. It is here he is most expressive.

Whenever I've seen the guy about town it is almost always on the Downtown East Side. He hangs out with his subjects, has empathy, compassion and understanding for them.

What would be the harm in photodocumenting one of the most marginalized subcultures in North America?

Re: based on the article I can't agree

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I don't want this to be an argument! I didn't say that he was doing harm by photodocumenting; the photos are good. I didn't like the attitude I got from the article and felt that both the writer of the article and the photographer were both patronizing and glorifying people who didn't need either one of those things. That's all. eyeteeth put it better than I did.

Anyway never mind. We just disagree.