This is a photo I did not take, of a woman sitting at her computer desk in her first-world apartment, looking at photos of chaos and rubble in a third-world earthquake-stricken country not so far away; this woman, pondering how lucky she is to be able to afford to live in a stable building in a different earthquake-prone area, how fortunate she is that she doesn’t have any suffering to capture with her camera lens, is so lost in pondering that she forgets to capture anything with her lens at all.

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