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You have from November 29th until December 6th to submit your photos for this photo-community event/competition.
Picture Black Friday will feature the chosen images at Conscientious and Too Much Chocolate. Deets here and jurors here.
The results will be interesting. Personally, I can’t get enough of adults trampling one another to buy the latest piece of plastic. I see those moments as pure and unmasked moments of engagement with materials that are all on a common and inevitable course from factory to landfill.
But can we really expect more or of those cliches in the current economy? I expect mainstream media outlets will be divided; half searching other stories than the annual mall-scrum and the other half perpetuating them blindly because they are so invested in the consumer-as-hero narrative that dominates American hopes and ultimately props American jobs.
Photographer’s are going to have to work really hard to show something different because I suspect some arms of photojournalism are going to be trying new things too.
If you don’t want to document the madness, that’s all gravy but please just don’t shop:
Prison Photography 