“Covering the war used to make me feel like I was doing something important,” Gilbertson wrote in the weeks following his embed with the Kurds. “I have grown to accept that people will not stop dying because I take their pictures.”
via The Atlantic.
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” I have grown to accept that people will not stop dying because I take their pictures”. I think that just about says it all…
A similar viewpoint to that of Don McCullin I suspect.
People still die whether you take their images or not. But from a photographers point of view this is one of those question you need to answer yourself, why do you do war photography in the first place.
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