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Documenting Local & State Budget Impacts
Paul Hayes, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Littleton | NH | USA | Posted: 6:27 PM on 03.25.11 |
->> Following last year's Republican revolution, pols have been taking the ax to budgets at the local, state and federal level. I'm looking for ideas on how to better capture that visually. Has anyone come up with anything interesting in terms of photos with stories, stand alones, photo essays, photo projects, etc.
I'm in the middle of brainstorming and would love for some ideas I haven't thought of yet. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. |
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Paul Hayes, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Littleton | NH | USA | Posted: 10:21 PM on 04.04.11 |
| ->> Just wanted to bump this once to see if I couldn't stir up a couple of responses. |
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Erik Markov, Photographer
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anywhere | IN | | Posted: 10:35 PM on 04.04.11 |
| ->> The story here is food pantries fearing govt funding cuts. There are many directions for that one. |
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Patrick Fallon, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Columbia | MO | USA | Posted: 12:49 AM on 04.05.11 |
->> Paul I would check out the work of Doug Mills of The New York Times. He works often in DC able to make some of the least visual things possible look pretty interesting.
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/doug-mills/ |
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Michael Fischer, Photographer
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Spencer | Ia | USA | Posted: 5:25 AM on 04.08.11 |
->> Several thoughts come to mind:
IF you have any military bases nearby; enlisted soldiers living paycheck to paycheck..
Commissaries will close...
Any national monuments/parks will shut down...
Payments to farmers won't happen (although the price of commodities makes this no big deal..)
Any local agency that gets federal funds is a possibility..
If this is a weekend shutdown, no super big impact.
If it stretches out into next week, you'll have plenty to shoot because both parties will get blamed. Anyone wanting to run for Congress next time will view this as a opportunity ... |
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Sam Morris, Photographer
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Henderson (Las Vegas) | NV | USA | Posted: 11:33 AM on 04.08.11 |
| ->> Planned Parenthood, since the final lynchpin seems to be abortion. |
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Sam Morris, Photographer
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Henderson (Las Vegas) | NV | USA | Posted: 11:45 AM on 04.08.11 |
| ->> Sorry, you said local and state. I was thinking federal, which is what we are working on today. |
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John Germ, Photographer
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Wadsworth | Oh | USA | Posted: 11:48 AM on 04.08.11 |
->> a photo of a balanced check book. Forgetting the other political issues, like abortion, and sticking just to the budget topic being raised and, as the original poster asked - the budget cutting by Republicans, I suggest the following:
I think it's very typical to just attack the party in power. To me, what is more interesting is: for those people that voted for the people in office, how do they feel the people they've voted in are doing? Where's the story if you find someone that voted democrat that is going to complain. Just like finding a republican that doesn't like the job the President is doing isn't a story. The real story is: now that said republicans are in charge of the budgets, do the people that put them in office feel they're doing a good job of it. Preferably, the 'swing voters' - the ones that switched from democrat to republican in their vote. Did they get what they want? I think too many times there's an agenda to start with to show a politician or party in good/bad light. Try it from an investigation standpoint - the photos showing the people in their homes illustrating they're the 'everyman'. People bought into a sales pitch - what's interesting to me is if the people that bought are happy or not because that will show whether they feel Republicans have gone too far. Any time budgets get cut, someone is going to be unhappy. Everyone wants a balanced budget until that effort negatively affects them. It's only interesting when the people were the ones that voted for the official to begin with. |
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