Context

• • Written by Carol Ann Duffy, who is a scottish poet.
  • Became the first woman to hold the post of Poet Laureate
  • War Photographer was published in 1985 as part of a collection
• • A photographer is in his darkroom , developing pictures that he has taken in war zones across the world. Being back in England is a big contrast as it is safe and calm compared to where he has been
  • A photo begins to develop, and the photographer remembers the death of the man and the cries of his wife
  • The final stanza focuses on the people in England who will see his photographs in their Sunday papers. The speaker thinks that they don't really care about the people and places in the photographs