Azoulay On Camera

In fact human beings in those instances become goods, products, models for filling the photographer’s purpose, to have a sense of achievement in the middle of hot dangerous zones. The camera becomes an excuse to focus on the shot and finding the right moment instead of remembering that these victims whom the photographer is ‘concerned’ about are human beings who need help not another ‘shot’ aimed at them. Here Azoulay’s description of the power of the camera in Death Showcase book helps to explain my point “[s]hooting a camera may not be different than shooting a gun. The photographer, like the assassin, is in control of the image and the event.” (Azoulay, 2003)

This point is an eternal debate in art and one can simply ask: can any of the