Solutions

Three hundred million Americans are looking to those of us in this room for solutions.
-E. Gordon Gee, College Board Forum (Oct 21, 2009)

My goal was to keep the rhetoric of the photos as possible. For this particular project, I didn’t want to hand hold the viewer to some preset emotional response. This is because I myself don’t have a particular emotional response to this issue, I have many. On one hand, I think its reckless to have one of the most financially lucrative establishments in the world next to deplorable living conditions. On the other hand, it’s not necessarily Ohio State’s responsibility. And ofcourse there is an infinite number of possibilities in between or even outside of these two thoughts.

It may seem lazy not to have a strong opinion of this, but I think the it’s more important to have a discussion of this than to pretend that there is some “correct” answer. We all know there isn’t a correct answer. As someone with a political science background, I often enjoy the discrepency in different people’s opinions. Give them the same basic, minimalist facts. And watch people with their own minds come to completely different conclusions. That’s what I did with pictures. Large pictures and small, bare minimum of facts. And then watch the discussion. It’s the getting there, not the destination.

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