Writer

The writer of “Toil and Temptation” is award-winning photojournalist Michael Kamber. As a journalist, Kamber worked with many American newspapers and magazines, either by covering events in war zones or stories the US.

Although he became more well-known in the years after the article was published (2001), even at that time, Kamber was a known collaborator of the newspaper The Village Voice. As a consequence, readers were acquainted with his style of writing, and he was a credible sender.

As the article is a case story, the writer makes no direct references to himself. Furthermore, he mostly uses indirect argumentation, which means he does not express arguments directly, which could reveal more about him.

However, Kamber mentions in the article that the story was a result of “A two-month investigation into the co...