Is “poverty porn” making a comeback?

In NPR’s Goats & Soda blog today, Thousand Currents’ Director of Communications Jennifer Lentfer was quoted in the story, “At What Point Does A Fundraising Ad Go Too Far?”

Are exploitative photos of the poor creeping back into nonprofit fundraising? It’s not a tactic Thousand Currents will use, because, as Jennifer says,

People in developing countries are not incapable or passively awaiting rescue… Poverty, conflict, disasters, injustice is heart-breaking, but it doesn’t mean people are victims.

Read the full article here and follow the discussion on Twitter at #DevPix.

*Thousand Currents changed its name from IDEX in 2016