raising awareness of social or environmental issues, whether Smith’s emotional Minamata or Burtynsky’s cool abstractions, is to ‘fix’ the problems we need to completely change the way we live. - How should we look at images of horror and suffering? – aeon.co/essays/how-s...

How should we look at images of horror and suffering? | Aeon Essays

W Eugene Smith’s photos of the Minamata disaster are both exquisite and horrifying. How might we now look at them?