All different in the same way

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Business men! The make the world go round, whether we like it or not. They are the people who get things done, they are the people who control more than one person should, they are the people who wear nothing but suits.

Fortune's Businessmen photo series focuses, clearly, on men dressed professionally, clearly in positions of power. Different kinds of power, in fact. One looks like a judge, another like a senator of some sort, and one who even looks like a crime boss. Each have possibly very different careers and areas of expertise, but they all of things in common. They get things done, they have power, and they wear suits.

Each of these men are very different and yet very the same. For one, you can see the faces of all the men and they are all centered in the photos. At least everything from the waste up is visible. To me it almost feels like the photographer was trying to imply that they are the same. It's ridiculous! It would be a shorter list to name the things they don't have in common.  A main difference I would like to point out (next to the fact that they aren't the same person over and over again, I swear) they are all in different places. Inside, outside, in a vehicle, leaving a vehicle-- no two are in the same place. To me it points out that they are all doing different things. They have different responsibilities and lives.

Without meaning to, I assumed that the first six pictures of the men (as they were the first ones that I could see on my screen)  were all doing 'good' things. I naturally assume that everyone does things with the purest intentions, including politics, which these men seem to be. I realize this is a rather naive way of thinking, but I still think it. That is, until I saw the last photo centered towards the bottom. This man is the one, as I mentioned earlier, who seems like a crime boss. It's probably the hat that makes me think that way. Realize that the man could very well be on the 'evil' side of power, I remembered all the similarities I saw through the pictures and my position on the other changed. Perhaps they weren't men trying their best to help others. Maybe that was the point the photographer was trying to make.

I thought it was a very creative way of presenting the photos. The first six within sight and the last one out of sight, just waiting for you to scroll down. I quite enjoyed how it was arranged, and if I were being honest I would have to say the way that the photos were arranged affected how I saw them the most. If they were in a different order or perhaps in a straight line I would have read them differently at a glance. I can tell a lot of thought when into how they were laid about and that affects the meaning a lot. I'll have to note that for my own photo series.