“He’s starving we’re not” Poverty Porn Controversy

Jane Amsinow
5 min readJan 30, 2021

When has an appeal gone too far?

This is a question we’ve asked ourselves before, and though nonprofit organizations began using more positive images of those in poverty from 1990 onwards, in 2015 we began seeing a return of what’s been labeled as “poverty porn” — exploitative images of the poor.

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Jane Amsinow

Writing based on experience and research. Love traveling and learning