Vandersault

“Always People. The stranger the better too.” Marie Claire says about her inspiration in Ilovethatphoto. She has worked across Canada and the US bringing extreme social conditions and the pure eccentric to light with her hasselblad.

She also says “when I photograph I am interested in Social Justice and Cultural differences.” It looks like she has plenty of awards, among them a nomination for Deeper Perspective Photographer of the year. She seems to really be there and these are all images that should be seen to understand these people´s lives. A lot of her work on her websites illuminates narcotics and from what it seems, prostitution. Sometimes when seeing work like this I do no know how they can make most change. Would anyone step in and give these people social care after exhibiting their spaces? Or is the change mostly on a preventative level, have the photographs meeting these people´s “mirror images” in the next generation before it happens? It´s complicated.

I have deep respect for this kind of work, but if I were to give these the full credibility they should entitle I´d go away from having a “matrixlike flash site” to share the work. Just a thought. I think laura pannack is a good example.