So, what is the purpose of wartime photography?
Sunil Shibad, copywriter from India, shares his opinion and felt that he has always seen war photographers as vultures. To just stand there and take a photograph as a soldier’s brains are being blown out mean that ice-cold blood flows in your veins. No matter the rationalization later on. In his famous speech to the US 3rd Army in 1944, Gen George Patton said, “The bilious bastards who wrote that stuff about individuality for the Saturday Evening Post don’t know anything more about real battle than they do about fornicating.” The failure of the human kind captured truthfully in the borders of the 4 framed walls; photography. True or False? What do people want to see? What do the government of raging war want to see in their fighting countries? To some, these pictures are artistic and documentary but to these war photographers, it has developed a war within themselves: Miljenko Popovic, 52, a former Croatian soldier, would never look at war photography because ”there are too many emoti
