National geographic

National geographic has been a main staple of cultural knowledge in are society for a long time. It is read by such a wide variety of people, and just about everyone will have at one point in there life flip threw one of there magazines whether it be at a doctors office or for a school project. In are society it is looked at for an insight to other less known cultures to give us a chance to see how other parts of the world live or to see unusual animals. But recreantly a man named Shekhar Deshpande wrote an article called the confident gaze and in his article he addresses the issue that national geographic my not be giving us the whole story or may be cleaning it up for the western reader. My group chose a photograph of hunting at it’s most glorified version. In the picture you see a large bull elk laying dead in the grass while a female hunter sits atop. The photo has a peaceful look to it with a back ground of cool green grass. The photographer has completely cut out the real bloody aspects of hunting and make it seem like an almost tranquil experience. There is not a drop of blood to be seen in the photo and the hunter who sits on the lifeless animal does not seem excited or thrilled she looks rather like she is contemplating something not an expression you would think of for a person who has just killed an animal. National geographic has not really given there audience the true way hunting goes down. They have shown the audience only what they think they will want to see, they have cleaned it up to look neat and painless so the audience doesn’t have to see the other side. We look to magazines like national geographic to show us true accounts of what is going on in the world around us but what they are showing us instead is posed photos to entertain not inform.