That @MagnumPhotos avatar. Still up. With the text: 'elite storytellers'.

How the pic is being used tells a story of what it traditionally took to be considered an 'elite' photog in a white supremacy world.

And I would encourage anyone to consider the use of the photo (taken in 1950) alongside this important thread by @johnedwinmason https://twitter.com/johnedwinmason/status/1300913361383755777

And then also consider this portrait by @MagnumPhotos Steve McCurry. Content and placement in what appears to be a airport.

It's not journalism. Its trafficking in trauma.

And people love it.

“The way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.” James Baldwin