"We Cannot Change The World Until We Imagine What A Better World Might Look Like."

The above photograph was my submission for this year's Salzburg Global Seminar Photo Contest. The paragraph below was included to accompany the picture, and the title of this post was our prompt.

We continue to talk about the Holocaust, genocide, and terrorist attacks because they make us strive towards a better world. My photo contains the skyline of Budapest, a city that has been bombed and rebuilt, showing that pure beauty can come out of pure hatred. It also shows the names of Holocaust victims from Mauthausen, because their names will not live in vain, but in justice. We look outwards toward a seemingly pretty world, without fully understanding what lies beneath it all. Remember the history beneath the architecture, and remember the names who aren't here to see it, because in a society where a Catholic can have Jewish friends, I am their justice. I am their better world, and the beauty of it lies within our continuous improvement of our universal society.