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Wednesday, April 21, 2004

I agree, war should be seen in all its ugliness

A Unique War Photographer

...not glorified, not used to get 'viewers'--indeed, I think playing images on screen over and over just desensitises, whereas print tends to capture the horror and gives you time to process it fully--but to show people the horrors of war. Not young children, certainly, but those of us who vote in our leaders and help make the decisions to wage war.

For Yoshito Matsushige's photos, as well as others taken at Hiroshima, check out: the Hiroshima A-Bomb Photo Museum. The pictures are very graphic, but than so was the devastation.

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