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From a series of 16 drawings.
Photographers record what is in front of them with
the indifferent eye of the camera. In the Soviet Union, in Cambodia,
in Rwanda, all over the world, they record the faces of men, women,
children, who have been detained and are about to be murdered by
their governments, or who have become the prey of their former neighbors.
It is difficult to think that something so wrong
is happening and that one only takes a photograph. Because the one
thing you want is to stop that horror. You want to stop the process,
even if you will be killed. The horrendous tolerance, the complicity
of the photographer, creates the photograph.
But also the photographs have a claim. I have seen
many photographs, and I cannot forget. These faces persecute me. At least I want to leave a memory of these
few people.
Brothers of Christ.
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