Her motivation for photographing some severely damaged people came from a sense of responsibility that she felt the mainstream media had abrogated at that point. She explains, "I felt a responsibility to show the other side and so in the most basic way it's just, 'Okay, look at this guy. This is what happens in war. It's not this clean, easy thing; it's not a bloodless enterprise. There are casualties.' I thought that the American public would only take this feeling to heart if they saw American soldiers; if they saw Iraqi civilians wounded I don't think they'd really care."
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Purple Hearts
Images from photojournalist Nina Berman's book Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment