![]() ![]() Why go off to wars or conflict zones at great personal risk to take pictures of people whose lives are in terrifying states of disarray? The answer is often tautological: The images are physically dangerous and psychologically costly to make, and therefore they must be the right images. The accounts journalists typically give of their motivations, particularly in photographing violence, aren’t always convincing. ![]() ![]() Who these sufferers are, why they suffer, who or what caused the suffering and what ought to be done about it: These are entirely more complex questions, questions hard to answer only by looking at the photograph. But finding out exact details, through the photograph alone, is more difficult. A photograph of a group of suffering people: We look at them, and from the sadness of their expressions and gestures, we know something awful has happened. ![]()
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