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Meiselas Responsible Response

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While the critic is still not convinced that Meiselas’ work has evolved about no one apart from herself, she replies to his criticism throughout an interview with Phong Bui, in which, she states that she doesn’t want to claim simply that the act of photography itself is a ‘responsible response’, and she doesn’t believe making the image alone is neither enough. But at the same time she encounters that to ask “should I not have made them, as a registry of history, for the following generations, to make sense of and understand themselves? My concern is not the concern of the concerned, but just to not pull back from that act.” (Cited in Bui, 2009). Throughout the interview she considers herself a ‘concerned photographer’ and asks ironically if

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