ISMAIL LAGARDIEN: When photographs are all we can offer the dead and dying
The camera makes visual statements about the horrors we would rather not see
22 February 2023 - 05:00
Allow me a break from the political economy. We live in terribly violent and destructive times. Death and dying seem to be everywhere. Then again, when have they not….
In a previous incarnation I was a photojournalist. During the violent mid-1980s I photographed destruction, misery, death and dying that often left me feeling inured, until I realised my own predatory voyeurism...
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