More than the negative

As people who through our craft capture and make observations on the human condition it is easy to always focus on the negative in society, but we cannot do this all the time if we want an audience because we will cease to offer any hope to our viewers. Even if we are showing the negative we as artists can do so creatively so as to make commentary and still offer hope for a better future. If we only offer up the horrors of pain and suffering and always show the darkness of societies heart it eventually drives people away no matter how good you are, because you offer no contrast in your work, it just becomes this unless parade of sadness. you have to show your audience the light at the end of the tunnel from time to time, to give them hope... do not do so it makes you look more like a parasite profiting off of other people's suffering, but if you include the positive and show what we as a society are working towards you will become engendered  as an agent of change and will draw more people towards your work

Independence day

I use my art, my photography as a political weapon, of mass education, I use it to expose hypocrisy in a government gone astray of its original intent. I will not sit idle and toe the status quo. Historically the artist has had the role of the socio-economic barometer of the times in which they live, and I will wear that mantle willingly, I will speak as eloquently and truthfully as I can, about a government conquored from within by lawyers and businessmen,  bankers and bondsmen, multinational conglomerates and political whores in drag as statesmen. Sound the alarm, they must be held accountable for their actions, freedom and democracy have been defiled in the name of commerce.
I am a photographer and an artist, I report back to you what I see, I refine this image and hold it up for you to take in, contemplate, and respond to, I am doing my job, now will you do yours?