I can’t bear to disseminate the now all-too familiar and completely devastating photograph of the drowned Syrian child on the beach alluded to in this drawing. Continue reading
Tyler Hicks
Photographic Aggression, Trust, Shame: Susiya, Sheikh Jarrah, June 5, 26, 2015
You won’t see the touching photograph I took at a memorial wall in New York after September 11, 2001, when a woman’s smile gave way to tears as my shutter clicked. It amounted to inadvertent aggression. Some regard all “street photography” categorically as aggressive and unethical. But I think photographic aggression needs to be judged on a case-by-case basis, even when that can be difficult. Such moments arise frequently during and between my intermittent visits to Palestine this past year, where I have been thinking about and documenting photographic practices while engaging in them. As a foreigner I learn local customs slowly. In my effort to do no harm, I navigate photography’s interrelations and worry about breaking photographic taboos.
Continue readingPhotographs in Gaza 1. “What contribution am I making?” Tyler Hicks
The photo may endure even if its subject does not. Continue reading