Thursday, 26 May 2011

I chose 3 different photographers because it’s more about the context of the images rather than the photographers. I think this is important when it comes to documenting a situation so that the reason for the photos existence is realised by the viewer, especially in documentary and photojournalism. I we took inspiration from reading the visual lecture witch among many things looked at cultural diversity. the photograph below was taken by Malcolm Wilde Browne in Saigon, Vietnam 1963
 Thich quang duc was a Buddhist monk who set himself on fire in protest, after Buddhist temples where raided by armed police killing and injuring monks and preventing them from peace full religious ceremonies. President Ngo Dinh Diem justified the repression of Buddhist by claiming they where contributing to political unrest. This from of suicide is called self-immolation. This photograph made the head lines even though self –immoliation had happened before the affects of capturing this particular moment for all to see shocked the world, making this image immortal and although shocking at the time it now seems, almost lost amongst the ever growing library of images created by our selves and adding to desensitisation of the world around us.

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