Bias or No Bias

In modern photo-journalism, and all journalism for that matter, there is a professional staple attached to keeping an unbiased approach in order to maintain the historical integrity of the information. I believe that before you are to represent someone through visual imagery, one must inform themselves of the context in which they are shooting, and most importantly a clear message to direct. I think the disconnect apparent in the Feature Group's work was that people were seeing it as work, and shooting the things that seemed interesting to them visually but didn't really align with focus of the whole campaign. They failed to view their work from the perspective of the indigent black people they were representing. They didn't seem to realize that the work they were exhibiting was just further the ill-perceptions of the community in mainstream media.