The camera is god: photographer Trent Parke grapples with an impossible humanism
As Australia's only member of Magnum, Trent Parke would be conscious of that celebrated post-war photo agency's humanist legacy, and the critique of that legacy. Put simply, humanism in photography refers to the use of photographs to represent the "human spirit" or "human experience". That notion " which gained traction in the early to mid […]