"Internally displaced people, fleeing a military offensive in the Swat valley, reach for bread ration at the UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) Jalozai camp, about 140 km (87 miles) north west of Pakistan's capital Islamabad May 26, 2009.
REUTERS/Ali Imam"
The photo together with the words do little to explain the stories of these people. It is only from reading a recent book about rural pakistani villages that I get a feeling for where these people have come from and how traumatic and devastating this scene is.
Reporters may scribble down notes about their true human stories but I don't think that they fully feel and understand these people. And I think it shows in the photography. In turn, generic images make readers turn away rather than feel drawn to help.
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