Friday, March 21, 2008

A great photographer

I didn't feel like posting a picture yesterday, on the fifth anniversary (when the world demonstrated on March 20 2003) of the US's war on Iraq that has destroyed that country and will leave it that way for years to come. Bush and the others talk about it all like it's a game, and they know exactly what they've done. It's really really really not hard when you look at Baghdad to see how one can hate the US. Another country that the US destroyed was Vietnam. And one of the reasons I became a photographer was because of the images from Vietnam taken by Philip Jones Griffiths. He passed away on March 18 at the age of 72. Griffiths images of Vietnam showed the ugliness of what was happening there, and what was happening there even after the war ended. Like Iraq has become today in the US press, not one of the more "interesting" news topics, even years after people forgot about Vietnam, Griffiths continued to get his work out there showing the brutality of the war. 

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