War Photographer Quotes

Cards (5)

  • ”Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”
    1. Power of memory and suffering of war
    2. Each photo tells brutal story
    3. Metaphor that the photos that undermine the pain and brutality
    4. Ordered - adjective organising and logic
    5. Prevalence of suffer amount of people forget
  • “Home again/ordinary pain”
    1. Power of memory
    2. Doesn’t feel better being at home still have trauma
    3. Declarative Not liking being at home as still has visions
    4. Pain - Noun suffers and traumatised by photos
    5. Writer wants reeder to realise you don’t just forget about this -PTSD
  • ”Blood stained into foreign dust”
    1. War is brutal violent
    2. Blood and devastation won’t be forgotten
    3. Metaphor blood and death will be like it doesn’t exist unless someone does something
    4. Foreign - adjective distance and people lack empathy as it’s happening somewhere else
    5. Intention - Criticise peoples lack of empathy
  • Quotes that link with sadness
    “readers eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre lunch bears”
  • ”Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh.”
    • Plosives
    • Quick fire pace - gunfire
    • Caesura - full stops force reader to stop and think about these places