Three images that show wartime photographs can have greater impact than the written word

By Lucy O'Sullivan, Assistant Professor in Modern Languages (Spanish), University of Birmingham
Pippa Oldfield, Senior Lecturer in Photography, Teesside University

This article contains images that some may finding distressing, including of torture.

“Images are worth a thousand words. These images may be worth a million.” US secretary of state Antony Blinken’s response to being shown graphic images of the victims of Hamas’s recent massacre raises an important question about whether photographs are more powerful than words in conveying the brutality of war.

Since the announcement of its

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