The genuine test of such iconic images is whether they make us merely voyeurs or spur us to actionWarning: this article includes graphic images some readers may find disturbingNearly every atrocity brings an image that defines the horror. So it is with the bombings in Brussels. Beneath the headline “What we feared has happened” the Guardian published a photograph of a young woman,stunned and disorientated, her face bloodied, and her feet bare,her top blown open to reveal her black bra and bare stomach. Was it an appropriate image? Did it condense the horror, shock and suffering? This question has echoed though contemporary photojournalism: how to balance the dramatic against the vicarious; how to portray the horror in a single image without demeaning the victims of that horror. War photographers face the same question. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com