While these photos can communicate the horrors of a conflict, they are also entangled in acts of violence. In Abu Ghraib, American soldiers used photography to turn their war crimes into visual souvenirs.
Similarly, Al Jazeera is collecting such “trophies” shared by Israeli soldiers as evidence of their war crimes.
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Images from Gaza have shocked the world – but the ‘spectacle of suffering’ is a double-edged sword
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