What to do with such knowledge as photographs bring of faraway suffering? - Susan Sontag, Regarding The Pain of Others
I tried checking the news everyday for a month while housesitting a property where my primary responsibility was checking on the pool.
The project was conceived of while visiting another housesitter who would check the news while sitting by the pool.
Below are news headlines and pool photographs I collected during this expiriment.
sources
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/climate/nyt-questions-online-shopping.html
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/22/middleeast/khan-younis-nasser-hospital-mass-grave-intl/index.html
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/us-news/dead-dolphin-bullets-brain-heart-32662120
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68888110
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/26/asia-heatwaves-philippines-bangladesh-india
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/4/27/twenty-cambodian-soldiers-killed-in-ammunition-base-explosion-pm
https://www.ft.com/content/769c8c79-312a-49d9-9451-a91e1b4a6faf
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/29/paleo-diet-is-wrong-caveman-diet-more-vegetables-than-meat/
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/georgian-parliament-vote-foreign-agent-bill-second-reading-2024-04-30/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/photos-may-day-protests-mark-turbulent-times
https://apnews.com/article/china-highway-collapse-guangdong-meizhou-9cf1836ea73ebc008ee6fcaeed942f51
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/03/1248830931/how-do-you-help-patients-who-show-up-in-the-er-100-times-a-year
https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/world/bomb-kills-at-least-12-people-including-children-at-two-displacement-camps-in-eastern-congo/ar-AA1o5D6x
https://time.com/6974944/brazil-rio-grande-do-sul-floods-death-toll/
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/death-toll-kenya-floods-rises-228-2024-05-05/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/attacks-on-politicians-in-germany-on-the-rise/ar-BB1lUCVy
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-08/ukraine-s-kyiv-lviv-under-attack-after-more-than-1-month-pause
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/ar-BB1m1KZr
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/ar-BB1m5HdW
https://financialpost.com/life/fashion-beauty/here-are-the-5-best-fisherman-sandals-for-spring
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240511-more-than-200-dead-in-afghanistan-flash-floods-un
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/12/sudan-war-rsf-el-fashir/
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/vatican-museums-staff-start-unprecedented-legal-action-over-labour-conditions-2024-05-12/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/14/kazakhstan-jails-former-minister-for-24-years-over-wifes-torture-murder
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/slovakian-prime-minister-shot-and-wounded-7329631d
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/16/headlines/france_declares_state_of_emergency_in_new_caledonia_after_4_killed_in_clashes_with_police
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/iran-arrests-260-people-including-3-european-citizens-110343684
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-kyrgyzstan-mob-attacks-students-ae20d93922a792dcf43243d78e78edfb
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/19/business/pineapple-rubyglow-price/index.html
https://www.foxnews.com/us/would-be-moose-photographer-kicked-death-mother-protecting-newborn-calves
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/environment/flora-fauna/authorities-investigate-abrupt-deaths-of-endangered-howler-monkeys-in-mexico-due-to-extreme-heat/articleshow/110304797.cms
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/septic-tanks-rising-waters-environment-health/?itid=hp_Climate%20box_p017_f001