Sunday, November 11, 2007

Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide

Lens Culture... Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide - photographs by Robert Lyons, introduction and text by Scott Strauss. "...the 'idea' of the spontaneous hundred-day mass genocide is impossible to envision with any sense of clarity. But this unforgettable and important book puts us face to face with many of the killers, the collaborators, and victims who survived. Each is photographed alone, with complete cooperation, and presented in a series of powerful portraits with no captions at all. Are we looking at a killer or a survivor, a leader or a follower? Surely this young child would not have been caught up in the madness and started to kill, would he?"

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