I’ve often said that the term migrants needs to change. Many of these people that you see in the news are refugees — and that’s a mirror of the past that we see in Dorothea Lange’s work. Of course, I’m talking about her famous Migrant Mother photograph. Since then, human attention spans have depleted, and humanity is more likely to take things presented to them as they are vs doing their own research. We also tend to absorb media passively rather than actively or when giving it our 100% full attention and critical thinking. That’s because we’re overloaded with information. And by all means, it’s much more difficult for humanity to get a hold of stuff like this. Over a decade ago, all the news became so depressing that people stopped paying attention to it — but journalists persist in trying to show people what’s going on around the world.
