Power of Photography

After watching the videos on the Abu Ghraib incidents, I began to analyze the power photography has. I came upon this article containing a video of an author presenting her transcripts to an audience along with a slideshow of photographs: http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2010/04/the-storytelling-power-of-photography.html .

As I watched the presentation of the author, I found myself fully engaged the whole time. And it needed no fancy presentation or even advanced vocabulary. My main focus remained on the photographs. And after seeing each photograph, new emotions were evoked in me. This is very similar to how I felt when I watched the Abu Ghraib videos. The ability for a single photograph to capture a whole event in time is incredible. And I had not realized this ability until after watching the Abu Ghraib video and coming upon this article.