The art of war photography | Art and design. There is a passage in Despatches, Michael Herr's viscerally powerful memoir of his time as a war correspondent in Vietnam in the late 60s, in which he describes seeing a photograph of an American marine "pissing into the locked-open mouth of a decomposing North Vietnamese soldier". He goes on to describe albums full of what soldiers call trophy photographs, some with pictures of Viet Cong women who had been stripped and humiliated, others with more graphic images of grinning American soldiers holding up the severed heads of Viet Cong fighters or necklaces made of human ears.
"There were hundreds of those albums in Vietnam, thousands … " Herr wrote. Most of them were never at the time seen, except by the soldiers who took them and the soldiers that posed for them. The world has changed since then. Believing Is Seeing is an intriguing group show at Ffotogallery, Cardiff, comprising the work of seven contemporary artists from Korea who utilise photography in different ways. Concurso do Exército britânico premia melhores fotos.
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