Picture Description and Challenges

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Photos speak a thousand words. As a frozen moment in time, they leave room to imagination on what led to the moment and what happened thereafter. This room for imagination is often exploited by taking some thought-provoking photos that speak volumes of the subjects in the photo. In some cases, photos are used to dehumanize people and rob them their humanity. I.e, a photo of a uniformed person in a warlike environment is always thought to be a machine designed to kill and inflict pain on other humans. When these pictures are circulated, they crank up emotion machines either evoking anger or hatred towards soldiers. People develop personal feelings towards them either of hatred or anger even when the soldiers have not done anything wrong to them. As Sontag puts it, &...