These can have a special resonance for the parents among us, but there have also been images of the airline passengers' bodies in Ukraine, scarcely covered by black plastic sheets. This week, back in the Middle East, many of the pictures of the dead from Gaza have involved children. The shocking image of a soldier, incinerated when his vehicle, part of a convoy of Iraqi troops withdrawing from Kuwait, was hit by US fire in 1991. Was this to be the first electronic war, with video footage of targets being blown up by remotely fired missiles and nothing showing the victims of all that hi-tech ordnance? A few days later, first the Observer and then the Guardian published Kenneth Jarecke's chilling photograph of an Iraqi soldier sitting in his truck having being been incinerated (there's no other word) during an attack on the fleeing Iraqi forces that was later described by the Americans as a "turkey shoot". She told me that the Guardian wasn't showing enough of the brutality of war, we must be holding back pictures, and she felt patronised by our photo coverage. Might we be doing the victims a disservice if we do not publish such hard-hitting photographs? If you had died a violent and unjust death, wouldn't you want the world to know all the details surrounding that death? On the other hand, in showing those images, are we perhaps feeding a propaganda machine and fuelling more conflict?ĭuring the Gulf war, in 1991, I took a telephone call from a reader. Of this flood of images, there are hundreds that we would not choose for publication because they are either deeply shocking, insensitive to human dignity, would be painful if seen by relatives or friends, or ultimately run the risk of forcing readers to turn away from the story, which would negate the purpose of photojournalism.Īnd there are deeper issues that we, as picture editors, have to wrestle with.
Two headline-grabbing and violent events – the downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17 in Ukraine and Israel's assault on Gaza – have generated some horrific photographs on a seemingly unprecedented scale. Conflict-weary picture editors have shed tears and wondered aloud if counselling might be needed as they have shifted through thousands of pictures provided by the photo agencies' all-seeing lenses. The images coming in to the Guardian's picture desk have reflected the last few days' carnage in an even more graphic way than usual: dead and maimed children in bombed-out Gaza or bodies of victims lying in Ukrainian cornfields. It's been another bitter, bloody and deadly news week. We tread a fine line and, because each picture is judged on its merits on the day, it is very difficult to have hard and fast rules. We wanted to show the readers the reality of life – and death – in Gaza but we didn't want to shock or unnecessarily upset them. We were discussing its possible use in the paper. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed."I really can't bear to look at that picture for more than a moment, it's just too upsetting." That was the reaction of my colleague, an experienced picture editor, to a photograph of a man kissing his dead child in a Gaza morgue on Tuesday. Garcia is expected back in court on Tuesday when a judge will decide whether or not to grant him bond pending his trial.Ĭopyright 2022 Sunbeam Television Corp. Loved ones of those who lost their lives were dealt another painful blow, as the bodycam footage was played in court at Monday’s detention hearing. Now he hopes a judge will let him out of jail as he awaits trial.Ī roadside memorial for the victims has already been vandalized twice. “I’m so sorry … God, please forgive me,” Garcia said in the video. “There was nothing at that immediate moment that I could do for them, unfortunately,” said Miami-Dade Police Officer Brittany Lozada. Investigators said the teen was high and drunk when he slammed into the victims’ Hyundai Elantra.ħNews cameras at the scene of the wreck showed the mangled sedan, barely recognizable. Yo, the cops are here,” someone is heard telling Garcia in the video. Twenty-one-year-old Yuhlia Gelats Barzaga, her boyfriend, 22-year-old Christian Mohip, and their friends, 21-year-old Andres Zacarias and 21-year-old Jenser Salazar, were killed instantly. Investigators said those riding inside the other car involved in the violent crash would not be as fortunate. The occupants of the SUV were all able to walk away from the mangled vehicle.
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