Abject Poverty / Object Poverty

I remember feeling somewhat queasy when seeing Lee Jefferies grid of photographs of homeless people in the Guardian last month - chatted with S. about it and then forgot it. Madeleine Corcoran's blog post Abject Poverty / Object Poverty here on duckrabbit grapples with some of the crunchy issues - also how a work's meaning is influenced by context. http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2012/02/abject-poverty-object-poverty/