Julien Gremaud, from the series Thatcher is Dead, 2014 This essay was originally published in FOAM Magazine’s new Talent Issue. Thatcher is Dead is the provocative yet matter-of-fact title of a series of images produced by Swiss artist Julien Gremaud. The images are purposefully obscure and consequently also difficult to read. At first sight they…
An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires towards the Gaza Strip, July 21, 2014. REUTERS/Nir Elias The power of images coming out of Gaza, and their role in effecting global public opinion on the war should not be underestimated. Beyond the information reported by the mainstream media, it seems that the most profound reactions were actually…
As the brutality and ugliness of the war in Gaza takes on a new dimension with every day passing, Western media outlets face a growing dilemma: how can they visually represent the horrors of war? It is quite clear that photo editors have a difficult task at hand because the pictures that they choose for…