“To suffer is one thing; another thing is to live with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate… Images transfix.

During the time of the Spanish Civil War, Virginia Woolf received a letter from a prominent lawyer in London who asked her, perhaps provocatively: 'How, in your opinion, are we to prevent war?' In her ...

From the Imaging Resource archive, first published January 2004. Prices, availability and software versions may have changed since. The following is an unedited press release, shown as received from ...

The camera phone made everyone a documentarian. For the disenfranchised, this transformation was born of urgency. Armed with nothing more than a basic smartphone, people all over the world now have ...

(JTA) — A Jewish college student sits alone in a dark room watching a series of short videos. They are filmed altercations from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, often violent, with some showing ...

The line separating documentary from propaganda is often blurred as filmmakers’ biases inevitably seep into their films’ narratives, obfuscating the subjects in lieu of the artists’ political ...