("Photographing Hell")
It is the picture taken as the bullet enters the head of its victim during a point blank execution on the streets of Saigon in 1968.
It is the 1972 image of Kim Phuc, the "napalm girl", 9 years old crying and running naked down the road.
It is in the mass grave sites, the workers loading body bags into the back of a truck, entire towns and cities now seeming but a pile of rubble in today's Ukraine.
It is in these photos that war is distilled to its essence: horrifying and terrifying in its indiscriminate brutality and unthinkable atrocities.
Photos that capture far more than a moment in time.
Photos that scream at us not to turn away.
Photos that are our most powerful weapons, moving nations to tears.
Photos that do not start wars but, in the pictures most remembered, ask us to open our eyes and end them.
3 comments:
Happy birthday to you.
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RB
THANK YOU FOR WRITING THIS PIECE. I HOPE IT’S PUBLISHED IN
OUR COUNTRY AS WELL AS ALL OVER THE WORLD. So many people speak English these days.
Enough of these Russian Monstrosities. I watch news of this horrible senseless war every single day. I hope Putin and his cronies and his savage army burn in Hell!
G
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