Alfredo Jaar: Newsweek covers as part of the ongoing Rwanda Projects (1994-1998)*This kind of direct

Alfredo Jaar: Newsweek covers as part of the ongoing Rwanda Projects (1994-1998)*This kind of direct critique of the Western media attention in chronology with world events could be applied infinitely… from the invasion of Iraq to the D.R.C., to Syria….*Alfredo Jaar’s Rwanda Project: 1994–2000 is a series of photography-based installation works derived from his experiences in Rwanda. He first travelled there in the summer of 1994 while the genocide was still ongoing and overwhelmingly ignored by the international community. It is estimated that almost one million people were killed over a period of three months, from April–July 1994.The Rwanda Project attempts to counter and transform the conventions of photojournalism, which frequently objectifies violence through unmediated images of victimization. Alternatively, Jaar reverses the lens’ eye to focus on the eyes of the witnesses and the hauntingly beautiful landscape in which this massacre was enacted as a means of eliciting an emotional response from the viewer. -- source link

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