Cactuses like swords of the earth, armored arms of the earth. In the factories pipelines that are intestines or voracious boas. Salgado photographs people. Casual photographers photograph phantoms. As an article of consumption poverty is a source of morbid pleasure and much money.
Poverty is a commodity that fetches a high price on the luxury market.
Consumer-society photographers approach but do not enter. They have looked without seeing and their images say nothing. Their cowardly photographs soiled with horror or blood may extract a few crocodile tears, a few coins, a pious word or two from the privileged of the earth, none of which changes the order of their universe. Hell serves to confirm the virtues of paradise. Charity, vertical, humiliates.