The relation between photography and pain has been both long and fraught, whilst the evidentiary nature of photography has always been contested, but remains assumed by many of us in our everyday dealings with the medium. When photography, suffering, and notions of truth come together, the results are even more problematic, being both "high stakes" and highly charged. In the face of such images, our understanding is imperative, information is seemingly self-evident, and interpretation is inevitably complicated by issues of affect. It is into this well-trodden, but still difficult, terrain that Picturing Atrocity delves.
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