This is an incredibly powerful image by an amazing
photographer, who is best known for war photography but also works in other fields,
I’m looking at this image as part of my contextual studies but also felt it was
something I wanted to put on here, because of the content of the image it’s something
that once you’ve seen it you kind of don’t forget it because of how it makes
you see war, as well as that the article is a really interesting read and high
lights some interesting points, one particularly is a bit at their end were he
talks about printing an image of a staving boy, and how he felt like instead of
bringing negatives back it was like bringing back flesh, which personally makes
me think about this kind of photography on a moral level, and whether I could do
it. Back to the image though it’s an amazing photograph in the scene that what he’s
captured is something incredibly powerful and is executed in a why which adds
to that power, but it’s also an image which can make you feel incredibly sorry,
which I don’t feel is the right way of putting it but I can’t find the words to
best describe what this image dose.
On an interesting related note, I find it interesting how no
images like this have come back from the war in the middle east, which some may
say is a good thing, but personally I feel we should all see what’s happening
to our army and to the “enemy”, and any one court in the cross fire, but we
here and see very little and I feel this effects, and is the reason that people
who don’t have family members or friends in the army don’t feel the same way
about it, and why there’s no protests for peace, either that or as a general public
we’ve become overly complacent with just excepting things.
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/feb/07/don-mccullin-shaped-war-review (image source)
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