Winter 2026

Looking at a Photograph of Suffering

“What is there to ‘admit’?” -Adolf Eichmann, pretrial testimony REBECCA WEST thought they were boring. Karl Jaspers hoped they might lead the Germans to salvation. Janet Flanner regarded them as an island of sanity in a sea of moral wreckage. …

I knew my pictures had a message, but what it was precisely I couldn’t have said. -Don McCullin, Unreasonable Behaviour I knew that of all the gory and heart-wrenching scenes I had already photographed that morning, this dead baby was …