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Issue 1<br />

May 2017<br />

8<br />

REFUGEES and the power of<br />

image<br />

with the help of JuliaN Stallabrass<br />

There has been a lot of<br />

critisism emerging from<br />

the public regarding the<br />

photographers that take<br />

horrifying photographs<br />

of what is happening in<br />

the ISIS run terrirories.<br />

The argument ususally<br />

boils down to the fact<br />

that the photographers<br />

could have been out<br />

there helping the injured<br />

child rather than taking<br />

a photograph of them,<br />

but there is something<br />

that public is not taking<br />

into consideration. The<br />

powe of image in the<br />

contamporaty world is<br />

significantly higher, and<br />

has the power to have a much<br />

larger impact on the problem,<br />

thus, a photograph of an injured<br />

child has a pontential to<br />

save more children. In order<br />

to understand this concept,<br />

it is important to look at the<br />

Vietnam War.<br />

The Images of Vietnam<br />

War<br />

"Not in our name" is an article<br />

written by professor<br />

Julian Stallabrass. It discusses<br />

the role that photographs<br />

that emerged from the Vietnam<br />

War played in rallys<br />

against the war in Iraq, and<br />

argues, that these anti-war<br />

rallys would not have happaned<br />

if the photographs<br />

did not exist. In Julian Stallabrass'<br />

opinion, people<br />

would not have marched<br />

against the war in Iraq if the<br />

chilling images of Vietnam<br />

War were not spread. Seeing<br />

something like a photograph<br />

seems to really speak one<br />

thousand word.<br />

Temporary refugee camp set up in the center of Munich, Germany

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