Photos that define tragedy
The recent popular uprising in Myanmar, photos, is just the latest example of how photos and videos are what really raises awareness about tragic situations worldwide. The BBC have several photos in their picture power collection (some graphic images which people may find disturbing) Oklahoma baby, napalm attack in Vietnam, Misery in Darfur, Death of an Iraqi soldier, Death of a Viet Cong guerilla and Afghan Girl.
Media has brought us all more information and power with that, I hope it brings wider awareness and is not used to spin out a story.
posted by Jon Grant, UK, 東京 @ 15:55
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This is amazing
http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds_and_oddities/assets/wanting_a_meal.jpg
The photographer later committed suicide suffering from depression and post traumatic street. The Manic Street Preachers wrote the song Kevin Carter about him.
http://www.einsatzgruppenarchives.com/images2/g61.jpg
Another famous one is a jewish woman holding her child and running from a german soldier who is about to shoot her. Shostakovich was partly inspired by this photograph to write his symphony on Babi Yar where the massacre happened.
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