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The new transcript was recorded during the opening of The War Photo Limited Gallery. Wade Goddard, the gallery curator explains that the idea was to get a more global perspective of what actually happened during the war. Goddard continue emphasizing that the se photographs were taking by photographers who were there during the war. They were the ones who saw, felt and smelt it with their own senses. Thus, they are the ones who deserves to tell the story.
He criticize the media saying that they have publishers and editors who have their own political view and only published what they wanted the audience to see, and that the other “impartial” part is never shown. The War Photo Limited Gallery aims to remind people that what happened in Dubrovnik more than a decade ago, is now happening elsewhere in the world. The idea is to focus on the conflicts that happened to us during our lifetime an to make people more aware of these conflicts, in hope that the governments will never put up a new war.
As Schirato & Yell (1996) defines narratives, they are used as ways of interpreting and structuring everyday life, and can take on a very powerful function in validating the events in people's lives. Thus, the photographers at war used narratives to tell the story during the war. As Evans (1978) state,the photographer and artist who see for us beyond the range of our vision. However, Evans (1978) added that photographers are other people who decide what will be photographed for the record and how what is photographed will be selected or discarded, or edited to change its emphasis. Just as Goddard mentioned in the article, the media choose what the audience should see. Hence, they select, edits and change the photographs.
Walsh (2006) states that Images have other effects that are different from words, particularly at affective, aesthetic and imaginative levels. This is why this War Photo Limited Gallery is said to be different from the 15 seconds of TV newsreel that we get on your international news channel. The photographs in the gallery exhibits follow a story and get a little bit further into the story and closer to touch the lives of those who are affected by war (ABC News, 2007).
Photographs are a very powerful tool. It informs and excites. A single image can be rich in meaning because it is a trigger image of all the emotions aroused by the subject, If you think of major new events, the likelihood is that you will visualise not a cine-sequence but a single scene from a single still news photograph which has been absorbed in the mind (Evans, 1978).
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