How do images prepare the time of Justice?
Christian Delage, historian and director: In this new edition of the book published in 2006, the historian and director Christian Delage has added three new chapters including a chapter dedicated to "images" on the massacres of Bucha (27 February and 31 March 2022) in Ukraine. Images that "have made it possible to immediately deconstruct Russian propaganda," he wrote in a Tribune published in Le Monde. And to recall "the importance of quickly documenting the abuses committed in the conflict in Ukraine with a view to future trials."
Which images can be used as evidence?
Christian Delage, historian and director:
- Those that are recontextualized, of which we know the author, the date, the place.
- Those that are not distorted, cut, modified.
- Those taken by people who will be able to testify about the conditions under which the image was captured.
- Those that can be supplemented by other documents to cross-reference them, attesting to their veracity. "A document is never sufficient in itself."
What is a "photograph that acts for history"?
Rafael Yaghobzadeh, photojournalist:
- A photograph taken at a specific moment, on a date-symbol that is significant in history.
- An unpublished photograph: which would not exist if the photographer had not been on site.
- A photograph that informs, that speaks immediately to the one who looks at it.
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