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“The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe. We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.”
John Berger, Ways of Seeing (1972)
Quote
Images of suffering hold attention, but do not guarantee action from the viewer. Compassion is an unstable emotion: unless it is translated into a gesture, it withers.
Fact
Worldwide, over 1 billion children live in multidimensional poverty: without safe water, without school, without basic health care. More than 95% of them live in Global-South countries, largely outside the European media frame.
Fact
In 2023 Italy allocated 0.27% of its gross national income to official development aid, against the UN target of 0.70% signed more than fifty years ago: less than half of Germany's level, less than a quarter of Norway's.
Testimony
A 2023 Caritas-Cisom survey found that, after visiting a photo exhibition on global poverty, 78% of visitors said they 'felt moved'. Three months later, only 11% had taken any concrete action: a donation, a signature, a change in consumption habits.