War Photography Quotes

“As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible. ”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

“Good pictures. Tragedy and violence certainly make powerful images. It is what we get paid for.But there is a price extracted with every such frame: some of the emotion, the vulnerability, the empathy that makes us human, is lost every time the shutter is released.”
― Greg Marinovich, The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War

“But a picture did free Iryna Dovhan from Russian captivity. And though I am certainly not as good or famous a photographer as Mauricio Lima, who took the picture of Iryna Dovhan being beaten in Donetsk, I will decide that sometimes recording and intervening are indeed the same.
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The American writer Susan Sontag thought that photographing was an act of nonintervention.”
― Victoria Amelina

“But a picture did free Iryna Dovhan from Russian captivity. And though I am certainly not as good or famous a photographer as Mauricio Lima, who took the picture of Iryna Dovhan being beaten in Donetsk, I will decide that sometimes recording and intervening are indeed the same.
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The American writer Susan Sontag thought that photographing was an act of nonintervention.”
― Victoria Amelina, Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary