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Parachute journalism is alive and problematic as hell

by South Side Weekly September 16, 2020June 5, 2021

Parachute journalism is alive and problematic as hell On September 5 the New York Times published a photo essay by Magnum photographer Alec Soth as part of a series on inequality titled “The America We Need.” Soth photographed people and places in two Chicago neighborhoods, Streeterville and Englewood, and to say that Tonika Lewis Johnson […]

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