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Art & Philosophy

The Not So Benign World of Photography

Atika Qasim questions her own, and others’, motives for taking photos.

This picture was taken in the summer of 2010. My family had decided to head over to the northern mountains of Pakistan to spend our vacations. The boy in the picture sits next to the Kunhar River in the small town of Balakot, a few miles from our destination, Naran. Being only a little girl back then, I didn’t quite know how to operate a camera, and the picture was never intended to take the form we see here.

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