In “The Confident gaze” by Shekhar Deshpande He talks about the way National Geographic takes their photos and how these pictures are sheltering us from the “real world”. He states:
“While we admire the accomplishments of its photographers to bring us the rest of the world, we forget that the photographs and the contexts in which they are placed represent a very conscious by the editors to make the world a happy place and a happy place especially for the western eye”.
This is saying that a lot of the time pictures are taken around the world in places that have a lot of poverty or violence, we do not see the real India, or Iraq, or wherever, because either we don’t want to see it or they don’t want us to see it. Then he says, “ While it covers or represents such issues or situations, it can sanitize and even beautify the blood and gore of the conflict. This means that even through all a countries issues National Geographic’s photographers can make the place look beautiful. Deshpande does not agree with the way that National Geographic captures other countries, he believes that their should be truth inside their photos.
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