Children of Suffering: Photographic Depictions of Youth Suffering as a Catalyst for Political Action

• In Event: Visual Communication Concepts

Abstract

With the advent of digital photography and the rapid distribution of photographs, visual communication has become an integral factor in the success of justice-seeking initiatives. Building on Sontag's observations concerning human reactions towards suffering, this paper argues that photography depicting the suffering of children is a sub-genre of visual communication uniquely capable of spurring political action.

Author

• Taylor Hahn, Wake Forest University