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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