RUANDA 1994. PHOTO: GILLESS PERESS / MAGNUMThe discussion of a few days ago over the Kevin Carter’s picture of the vulture and the African child , reminded me of the terrible pictures on Rwanda taken by Magnum’s French photographer Gilles Peress.
I have always followed with great interest the trajectory of Peress, given my commitment to Northern Ireland after discovering his powerful images taken on Bloody Sunday in Derry in 1973.
PHOTO: GILLESS PERESS / MAGNUM
Then Gilles Peress covered the Iranian revolution, embodied in a wonderful book called "Telex from Iran." His style had evolved and had become much more complex, as we see on the cover of the book.
TELEX FROM IRAN. GILLES PERESS
Later, the terrible events occurred in Rwanda in the summer of 1994, where the Hutus slaughtered a million Tutsis with machetes. A terrible ethnic cleansing perpetrated with the shameful indifference of the West.
Gilles Peress photographed it once happened, and their images show his anger about what what happened. His style is stripped of any complexity and photographs directly the full horror of the killing in an attempt to shake our conscience. The images were published in a book edited by him entitled "The Silence".
I note that the photos show below may offend the sensibilities of who see them.
After seeing this, would anyone would ever accuse Gilles Peress of disrespect for the dignity of the victims?
I have always followed with great interest the trajectory of Peress, given my commitment to Northern Ireland after discovering his powerful images taken on Bloody Sunday in Derry in 1973.
PHOTO: GILLESS PERESS / MAGNUMThen Gilles Peress covered the Iranian revolution, embodied in a wonderful book called "Telex from Iran." His style had evolved and had become much more complex, as we see on the cover of the book.
TELEX FROM IRAN. GILLES PERESSLater, the terrible events occurred in Rwanda in the summer of 1994, where the Hutus slaughtered a million Tutsis with machetes. A terrible ethnic cleansing perpetrated with the shameful indifference of the West.
Gilles Peress photographed it once happened, and their images show his anger about what what happened. His style is stripped of any complexity and photographs directly the full horror of the killing in an attempt to shake our conscience. The images were published in a book edited by him entitled "The Silence".
I note that the photos show below may offend the sensibilities of who see them.
After seeing this, would anyone would ever accuse Gilles Peress of disrespect for the dignity of the victims?
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