Regarding-the-pain-of-others Quotes

Perhaps the only people with the right to look at images of suffering of this extreme order are thos...

One can feel obliged to look at phototgraphs that record great cruelties and crimes. One should feel...

What is odd is not that so many of the iconic news photos of the past, including some of the best-re...

With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind - li...

We" - this "we" is everyone who has never experienced anything like what they went through - don't u...

It is a view of suffering, of the pain of others, that is rooted in religious thinking, which links ...

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

To set their sufferings alongside the sufferings of another people was to compare them (which hell w...

Perhaps too much value is assigned to memory, not enough to thinking. Remembering is an ethical act,...

It is felt that there is something morally wrong with the abstract of reality offered by photography...

Up to a point, the weight and seriousness of such photographs survive better in a book, where one ca...

No "we" should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.

Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize.

Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to "care" more.

Often something looks, or is felt to look, "better" in a photograph. Indeed, it is one of the functi...

All memory is individual, unreproducible - it dies with each person. What is called collective memor...

The memory of war, however, like all memory, is mostly local.

In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life supplies for regarding -...

Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.

Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more l...