The modern world is moving fast. Where is the world moving one might ask? It is moving towards a unified globe. There is a reason for the paradoxical relationship of our modern world growing in number but shrinking in perceived territorial size. How many people encounter those familiar to them in places across the world they would never even imagine an encounter. This occurrence is globalization in action. Author Zanny Begg has written a extremely informative expose on the two photographers who seem to capture this movement with the utmost accuracy and understanding. In “Recasting Subjectivity: Globalization and the Photography of Andreas Gursky and Allen Sekula,” Begg explains how each of these men, provides the two most apt approaches to the effects of globalization. According to Begg globalization, deterritorialization, hyper-capitalism, and time-space compression are the focal points of Gursky and Sekula’s view on how people in the modern day perceive photography. Gursky and Sekula have differing views so concrete that they essentially embody the two viewpoints of globalization. Gursky chooses to focus on the potentiality while Sekula prefers to observe and extrapolate the limits of globalization, each through their photography. However, there is one point that I find most interesting. Capitalism has reached such heights to where is seems as if it is doing more harm than good for the world. Begg covers this concept comprehensively as she discusses how capitalism reached this point after the fall of socialist regimes. The overt problematic system socialism bred made capitalism the unequivocal choice for world trade. But it seems ironic how such a system that held such promise of economic freedom and opportunity now has morphed into this globalized connection of a hyper-capitalist network that has taken things job opportunity and turned it into economic chaos with all of the staff-cuts, pollution, and poor working conditions. Sekula ideally captures this process in his photographs which can show the world and hopefully inspire further developemtn of things like the global justice movement to return to a capitalist system that runs efficiently.