The Brussels Attack: Between Two Cell Phone Photos of the Same Scene – Reading The Pictures

The Brussels Attack: Between Two Cell Phone Photos of the Same Scene – Reading The Pictures

What stood out from Monday’s terror attack in Brussels is how two slightly different cell phone photos became defining images of the event.

via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2016/03/two-brussels-attack-photos/

It’s not unusual that one photo, over the course of a couple hours, would become the defining image of a shattering event. What stood out from Monday’s Brussels attack, though, is how two slightly different versions from the same cellphone shared that distinction.