Photos that changed the world

Jonathan Klein

In my industry we believe

that images can change the

world

Images themselves don’t change the world

but can change the way to see it

Innocent victims of the war

A different perspective for humanity

No one is really in safety

Don’t exist right wars

There are no restrictions on love

The photos bring back memories

against historical revisionism

Photos provoke reactions to accidents

even if they happen away from us

New Orleans flood

Fukushima fallout

Abruzzo earthquake

Many organisations use photos

for social campaigns

In a world where images

flow quickly

The challenge is to capture

people’s interest

To force them looking

To fight indifference

To put yourself in somebody

elses’ shoes

To push somebody into doing

a nice gesture

To shock

To have strong feelings

To get angry

To take a stand

To be forced to look

When talking is impossible

If these images have upset you

It means that they have hit the mark

But we must be careful to not degenerate

into voyeurism and morbid curiosity

This overexposure to horrors

saturate emotions and suppress them

Instead emotions are the most pleasing

things of the life

And photos can make them eternals

Gianna Rita Zagaria

Dipartimento di scienze dell’educazione

Dottorato in servizio sociale