mellowyellow
Well-known Member
The historical case of one photographer who died on this date in 1921, Willoughby Wallace Hooper, a British Army lieutenant (later colonel) in India, is relevant to a consideration of this difference; he is slippery in terms of his ethics and motivations.
In recording the victims of a great monsoon-driven famine in 1876-78 in which 10.3 million people starved to death, it was reported that Hooper had the skeletal sufferers brought to him in groups, neatly sorted by age and gender and that after photographing them, he sent them back, with no attempt to help them.
He was pilloried for this in Punch, who caricatured him, and in other publications. His images did arouse some to collect money for the relief of Indian famine victims, though at the time many subscribed to the convenient Malthusian idea that it was a natural population control and best left to run its course.....................
https://onthisdateinphotography.com/2018/04/21/april-21-concern/