Portraits from a Genocide – PhotoShelter Blog

Photographs act as records, and records are what the Nazis and Khmer Rouge sought to create during their brutal genocides of the 20th century. Portraits of thousands of men, women and children taken shortly before their deaths is a savage reminder of the

via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2017/06/portraits-from-a-genocide/

Photographs act as records, and records are what the Nazis and Khmer Rouge sought to create during their brutal genocides of the 20th century. Portraits of thousands of men, women and children taken shortly before their deaths is a savage reminder of the photo as a weapon, but ironically also illustrates how the photos came back to haunt the perpetrators as evidence of their crimes against humanity.