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» What does a poor person look like? Engineers Without Borders member Duncan McNicholl found himself frustrated with media depictions of "poor Africans", so he has begun photographing his African hosts in 2 sets of clothes: the decrepit clothing usually depicted, and his subjects' very best clothes. The results are fun and enlightening, a lesson in themselves on media literacy and the ways in which typical media depictions of poverty tell only one part of the story. (via @anildash)