Photography after the incidents: We're not afraid

Authors

Panizza Allmark, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Journal Article

Publisher

Queensland University of Technology

Faculty

Faculty of Education and Arts

School

School of Communications and Arts / Centre for Research in Entertainment, Arts, Technology, Education and Communications

RAS ID

5739

Comments

Allmark, P. (2008). Photography after the incidents: We’re not afraid!. M/C Journal, 11(1). Available here

Abstract

This article will look at the use of personal photographs that attempt to convey a sense of social activism as a reaction against global terrorism. Moreover, I argue that the photographs uploaded to the site “We’re Not Afraid”, which began after the London bombings in 2005, presents a forum to promote the pleasures of western cultural values as a defence against the anxiety of terror. What is compelling are the ways in which the Website promotes, seemingly, everyday modalities through what may be deemed as the domestic snapshot. Nevertheless, the aura from the context of these images operates to arouse the collective memory of terrorism and violence. It promotes photography’s spectacular power.

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