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"Somewhere in the gap between Fox News and Flickr lies a territory ripe for colonisation, a territory of context, of reflection, of discourse and of depth. A territory where quality might supersede quantity; where images might have room to breathe. A territory where journalists, photographers and filmmakers might work unchained of mainstream media, reaching their audi-ences unmediated by the agendas of Murdoch and Turner. A territory where an audience might actively seek out independent viewpoints instead of being passively spoon-fed propaganda disguised as truth, falsehoods masked as facts. A territory where, from an interrogation of a plurality of subjective viewpoints, some kind of objective opinion, informed, invigorated and in-flected by images, might emerge. A territory where the economy of images might produce a deeper empathy with the world outside of our living room (...)."
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