How far can war photographers go to document the horrors they face?
This is one of the questions posed by the unpublished documentary
Ukraine: photographers in the war
, by Julien Boluen and Frédéric Decossas.
A question to which photographer Éric Bouvet, who has been traveling in conflict zones for forty years, provides a two-part answer.
“
I censored myself in my career because it allowed me to keep this dignity of people, in these monstrous scenes that I saw
”, confides the one who is one of the 2,000 photographers who cover the war in Ukraine.
But this reporter adds in stride:
“The only concern is that I shouldn't have done that, I should have taken these hard, shocking images.
If the American soldiers who arrived in the concentration camps in 1945 had said to themselves: “this is horrible, I don't take pictures”, there would have been no eyewitness accounts.
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