Visual Advocacy Proposal

For my Visual Advocacy project, I would like to show the wide gap between the rich and the poor in our capitalistic society. In 2002, the wealthiest 20% of households accounted for 50% of the total US income, and this number has only increased with the worsening economy, as more poor have lost their jobs and increasing numbers of homeless, especially in urban areas, such as Detroit. 

For this reason, I would like to illustrate, through a series of six pictures, the huge gap that is everywhere in American society, and how the poor and the rich coexist. An example of a photo that would depict this huge gap, would be perhaps a photograph of a homeless person in a shot, while in the same shot, a businessman/woman by their expensive car. 

I would like my series of photos to depict this gap and show the coexistence of the rich and the poor within the same communities so that it evokes an emotional response within the audience. To hear about inequality is one thing, but to actually see the wide spectrum next to within one photograph ( where you see a man or woman not have enough money for their next meal at one corner of the photo and a man or woman that is driving a car worth thousands at the other end) is an affective way of making the audience realize the extremity of the gap and evoking an emotional response from them.