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CARE Affair #11 - Power

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Happy African children: Photos commonly used by aid agencies show the contrary. What does this<br />

do to our idea of people and regions far away? The power of an image has always been and will always be a<br />

force to be reckoned with.<br />

PREJUDICES<br />

“These NGO photos of starving children are undignified.” We’ve heard these complaints many times<br />

before. But how do you react in a hospital in Somalia when you’re standing next to a severely malnourished<br />

child and talk to his mother? And she asks you to tell the world about their suffering? Jennifer Bose travels to<br />

many crisis areas around the world for <strong>CARE</strong> and describes the fine line between fact and cliché in a<br />

personal essay on the power of photos and stories on page 100. Every year, Fortune magazine lists the 500<br />

most successful companies. Is a career woman from Sri Lanka among the CEOs? The usual stereotypes<br />

about women from developing countries portray them as peasants, mothers or survivors of violence. Our<br />

photo essay on page 28 shows another facet of women: successful entrepreneurs: A Fortune 500 list of a<br />

rather different kind.<br />

<strong>Power</strong><br />

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