18th April 2009
Human Suffering on Display Ethical:
Documenting pain, disfigurement and death in war and other conflicts
Imperial War Museum
Following on from the 2008 Brighton Photo Biennial – MEMORY OF FIRE: THE WAR OF IMAGES AND IMAGES OF WAR, curated by Julian Stallabrass – this interdisciplinary seminar aims to bring together war and other photographers; museologists and curators; media publishers and editors; and academics concerned with ethical analysis and issues of the use of images, to discuss two central ethical issues raised in the display of human suffering: the acts of photographing such suffering and of displaying and/or publishing such photographs; the relations between such images and the people whose suffering they portray.
Invited delegates discussed four short presentations which began a more sustained conversation
