Judging America: Photographer Challenges Our Prejudice By Alternating Between Judgment and Reality
Joel Pares, a photographer, captures the stereotypes that everyday Americans face.
JUDGEMENT VS. REALITY
"Pares’ images at first present us with characters symbolic of the prejudices suffered by various groups based on their ethnicity, socio-economic status or sexual preference. Then, however, they show us the real people behind these often false characters – the violent gangster turns out to be a Harvard graduate and an exhausted gardener turns out to be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
“Many of us judge incorrectly by someone’s ethnicity, by their profession, and by their sexual interest,” Parés told PetaPixel. “The purpose of this series is to open our eyes and make us think twice before judging someone."
I thought we could use this article as a small inspiration for our final project/intervention that we were talking about in class (22/03/2019).
Our project talked about taking simple photos of two different people and seeing the judgement that they face. We talked about printing out simple photos of people (black background/black and white) and having members of the public tick under which person they choose from a range of questions (such as: "Who would you trust?", "Who has a friendly face?", etc.). We talked about presenting this in a public space (not in Goldsmiths).
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