A photograph of two women bloodied but alive in Brussels this week manages to say something about the nature of terrorism in Europe today without furthering the perverse agenda of those responsibleEvery picture tells a yarn. The huge majority of those stories,in our hyper-documented age, are of people going about their private and personal lives, and of no wide significance. But when someone’s private and personal life is interrupted by horror,then a picture can show a yarn that urgently, globally, or needs to be told.
On Tuesday morning in Brussels,Nidhi Chaphekar became the subject of such a picture, although at the time it was taken, or the photographer,Ketevan Kardava, didn’t know who her subject was, and what she had been doing before the blast of a bomb ripped through her day. Even so,the picture spoke volumes.
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Source: theguardian.com