poverty porn?

Salgado, School in Refugee Camp
Afghanistan, 1996

Salgado, Manila Slum
Philippines, 1999

Salgado, Kurdish Girl
Iraq, 1997

Salgado, Coal Industry Workers
India, 1994

Sebastio Salgado is known for his photographs of the underprivileged around the world. Do his photographs function as a social documentary? Or are they simply aestheticizing poverty?

Or is it that the ends justify the means? Perhaps glamorizing the poor will instigate a more powerful reaction. Consider Bono and Africa.