ABSTRACT
Marcus Bleasdale, a British photographer, documents conflict and human rights violations, and has extensively covered the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic. Bleasdale often works with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), such as Human Rights Watch and Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres. For instance, with the photo [opposite], the author shows the extent of the need in the local healthcare. Moving back to the photographer, describe readers role or responsibility in an ethically fraught situation they have encountered. The distance from Congo had become great enough and our photographs were much more celebratory. Photography is a smart tool. And if readers forge partnerships with NGOs, they make the smart tool very powerful. The photographers who think that a bottle of whiskey will fix things are fools. Readers have to be smart about it and recognize their own limits and ask for help.
