Beliefs and assumptions: A child in a dangerous situation must be helped. Anything else is unthinkable. Everyone else in the world, on the whole, agrees with this moral tenet. If you help someone else, you will be thanked and even rewarded, and not threatened or killed.
Appropriate language: College-level rhetoric. Use of sociopolitical terms, especially the more commonly known ones like apartheid. This ties in with the audience's level of education, and also their sociopolitical and economic backgrounds, which tend to be middle to upper class, at least in the United States. A wider span includes more people of lower socioeconomic means as the audience expands outside the country.
This audience may change any wrong assumptions they may have had about Mr. Carter once they read the text. They often change their positions when new evidence is presented, if they are convinced the new facts and arguments are sound. There is a good deal less internalization of social beliefs, especially in the area of identity, in this audience then there are in others which may prefer less controversial material. They will want to know more about the photographer himself and the details of the situations he was so often in while working. More about what was happening on the day and at the moment he shot the photo he was so criticized for would be good information.
A combination of new facts, contexts, and emotional revelations would work for this audience in terms of persuasion, although the facts would be the most convincing. If the personal character of the person in question emerges as fair and good, it would persuade them more than if the person turned out to be a callous or incompetent.
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