Bearing Witness

“In the face of ceaseless conflicts, it can sometimes seem as if audiences have become inured to reports or images of suffering. But in my experience, some photographs will always have the power to make us confront horror. As the journalist Nicholas Kristof once told me, ‘Photos move people the way prose never does.’ Evocative images can affect policy, spur action, and every now and then alter the course of history.”

—David Hume Kennerly, Pulitzer Prize-winning war photographer, “Photographing Hell,” The New York Times, April 16, 2022.

 

 

 

• Editorial Comment: Help us see.

 

 

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Wakan, 2012.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Edward C. Pease, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Head Emeritus
Department of Journalism & Communication
Utah State University
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