Alyse Emdur has begun a brilliant project Photograph a Recruiter that asks high school students to submit their own photos of military recruitment drives in schools.
In a modest way the project aims to offer students an alternative national stage to the one the which involves guns and death.
It is, perhaps, a more playful means to combat predatory army and navy recruitment practices … certainly more so than the raucous and confrontational pickets in Berkeley, California last year.
(Found via iheartphotograph)
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September 25, 2012 at 6:35 pm
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