diff --git a/course/content/en/class1/extra-pre-reading.md b/course/content/en/class1/extra-pre-reading.md index 62ea187..ddf2088 100644 --- a/course/content/en/class1/extra-pre-reading.md +++ b/course/content/en/class1/extra-pre-reading.md @@ -50,10 +50,6 @@ _ {"context":[{"credit":"AFP","src":"https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/media/images/74046000/jpg/_74046097_74043193.jpg"}],"links":[{"title":"When the World Turned Its Back: James Nachtwey's Reflections on the Rwandan Genocide","url":"http://time.com/3449593/when-the-world-turned-its-back-james-nachtweys-reflections-on-the-rwandan-genocide/?iid=lb-gal-viewagn#1"}],"backStory":{"text":"Liberated from a nearby Hutu camp, where mainly Tutsis were incarcerated, starved, beaten, and killed, this man did not support the genocide and was thus subjected to the same treatment. Starved and attacked with machetes, he had managed to survive, though he was unable to speak and could barely walk or swallow when this photo was made. The animosity between the Hutu and Tutsi population groups in Rwanda had been simmering for decades. In April 1994, Hutu President Juvénal Habyarimana’s death in a plane crash near the capital of Kigali sparked murderous attacks on the Tutsi minority and Hutu moderates. The situation deteriorated further when the mainly Tutsi rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) started pushing south from their stronghold in northern Rwanda. A mass exodus of people trying to escape excessive violence was underway by July.","author":"James Natchwey","magazine":"Magnum Photos for Time","magazineUrl":"https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/1995/world-press-photo-year/james-nachtwey","date":"June 1, 1994"},"creativeCommons":{"copyright":"James Nachtwey © 1994","codeOfEthics":"Entrants to the World Press Photo contest must ensure their pictures provide an accurate and fair representation of the scene they witnessed so the audience is not misled.","description":"A Hutu man at a Red Cross hospital in Nyanza, Rwanda. His face was mutilated by the Hutu 'Interahamwe' militia, who suspected him of sympathizing with the Tutsi rebels."}} -The long-term consequences of war are less-documented because they do not appeal to international mainstream media as much as the sensationalism and graveness of war photographs. Photographers and journalists generally leave once a conflict ends. But what happens to the people who stay behind? Their psychological wounds are immense, long-lasting and often unaddressed. Wars break families and relatives apart. Loss and absence are omnipresent. How does a photographer represent those invisible scars in a way that will emotionally move the audience? How does a photographer tell the story of what cannot be seen? - -Picture 4 shows a good example of how to creatively communicate something that’s not there; the relatives of refugees on the other side of the ocean, miles away. Like Dalia, the photographer uses personal objects as evidences of the missing social bound: their phones are up in the air, screen lighted, symbolising the hope of connecting with their loved ones. Dalia uses photographs of the missings, old personal items such as cigarettes or bags to bring the viewer into the experience of loss and trauma that her subjects are going through. It is certainly a difficult and sensitive exercise which requires the trust of her subjects. As in picture 4, Dalia’s images are intensely quiet, empty and hunting. Although less straight-forward and dramatic than the war photographs showcased here, those images are powerful and moving testimonies of the lasting consequences of war. Dalia Khamissy and John Stanmeyer have both found creative and personal ways to reinforce the feeling of disappearance and therefore, bring to the front light the human consequences of war. - **Robin Moyer, 1982** @@ -80,4 +76,4 @@ _absence, relatives, missing, displacement, refugees, social link_ -_You can find more images from the World Press Photo Archive at https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection_ \ No newline at end of file +_You can find more images from the World Press Photo Archive at https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection_