Save the child: Photographed faces and affective transactions in NGO child sponsoring programs

Zarzycka, Marta

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“…Thus, children are the epitome of 'deserving' and are far easier to elicit sympathetic or empathetic emotions in a viewer (MacLennan, 2018). Postcolonial scholars have pushed this notion further to highlight how the consistent usage of images of children display the paternalism of development, that is as conceptualizing the Global South as a homogenized body of 'undeveloped' or 'underdeveloped' children (Manzo, 2008;Seu, 2015;Zarzycka, 2016). While many organizations do focus their work with children, there is often an unequal distribution of photos of children to the actual beneficiaries of aid.…”

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The Spectacle of Development: The Semiotics of Representations of the Global South

Seburn¹

2021

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The ethics of the image creation practices of modern development and humanitarian NonGovernmental Organizations (NGOs) exist in a complex realm of colonial legacies and historically misguided development approaches. Through a semiotic analysis of the top images on ten Canadian NGO websites, combined with an interview with a Communications Director, this research examines the underlying messages presented about people in the Global South to audiences in the Global North. In order to present legible narratives to an audience of varying perspectives, signs, symbols and allusions which have become enregistered in the cultural lexicon are utilized to present a world that is at once the same as and yet simultaneously widely different from our own. These semiotic tools, which are often used to distract from larger socioeconomic inequalities, can be highlighted to not only analyze how people in the Global South are represented, but how they could be represented more truthfully and ethically.

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Section: 'Poverty Pornography'mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Spectacle of Development: The Semiotics of Representations of the Global South

Seburn¹

2021

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“…Portraiture such as these have been critically examined in the literature as exoticizing and objectifying sitters, in certain contexts, thus reproducing a world view of a distant and inferior other (LUTZ;COLLINS, 1993). Another common visual figure may be called the child in need (KEDRA;SOMMIER, 2018;PETERS, 2017;ZARYCKA, 2016). This visual figure can be traced to NGO campaigns of the early 20th century, according to Heide Fehrenbach and Davide Rodogno (2015, 2016).…”

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Visualizing the experience of flight

Nilsson

2020

Novos Olhares

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This paper explores how photojournalism addresses refugee migration in Sweden, a country currently receiving a large influx of asylum seekers, in particular during a surge in global migration in 2015. Theoretically informed by literature calling for a compassionate visual storytelling focusing on the experience of refugees, the specific focus is on entries in the Swedish Picture of the Year contest. Images of children were particularly prominent among contest entries focusing on forced migration in the examined years, presenting an opportunity to further explore visual representation while also considering portraiture as a photojournalistic genre and visual strategy. A close reading drawing on semiotics and compositional analysis was conducted on images and written contest jury motivations. Findings showed a humanitarian aesthetic, formality as a storytelling tool, and an unresolved tension between showing and shielding young victims of trauma.

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“…From iconic point of view, the presence of children in images can attract empathy, compassion and a willingness to protect (Figures 23, 7). Zarzycka (2015) explains that the images of the children's faces appeal to compassion and a humanist discourse and can generate remorse and empathy among the audience (p. 29). In Figure 5, covered by wave designs, it is possible to observe, within the outline of the footprints and in a light blue, hearts, gifts, hand in hand suggesting help.…”

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Refugiados e migrantes em campanhas públicas: dar voz a quem não tem voz

Belim

2020

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Este artigo foca-se no potencial persuasivo das campanhas de comunicação pública sobre refugiados e migrantes. A partir da análise da retórica a suportes (n=62), conclui-se que o discurso adota uma tática retórica assente na proposta aristotélica: ethos, pathos e logos. Os resultados indicam: 1) o uso da credibilidade da fonte e do sujeito ativo, construindo a impressão de que são dignos de confiança; 2) ao nível do pathos, a instigação da dimensão afetiva, motivando, potencialmente e com valor positivo, a empatia, o compadecimento, o exercício de reflexão, o reconhecimento do erro dos preconceitos, o peso da responsabilidade, o ímpeto a agir e a resolver problemas, a gratificação por ajudar e a consciencialização do contributo para algo positivo e, com valor negativo, a frustração e a culpa; 3) ao nível do logos, a força do realismo – alicerçada nos dados estatísticos, factos, exemplos e personalizações –, dos recursos estilísticos como a metáfora, do uso do ponto de interrogação e da riqueza e multiformismo da criatividade.

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Save the child: Photographed faces and affective transactions in NGO child sponsoring programs

Cited by 24 publications

References 34 publications

The Spectacle of Development: The Semiotics of Representations of the Global South

The Spectacle of Development: The Semiotics of Representations of the Global South

Visualizing the experience of flight

Refugiados e migrantes em campanhas públicas: dar voz a quem não tem voz

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