“Do I exploit the people in my pictures? Can working as a war-zone photographer be morally justified? Why are we attracted to pictures of other people’s misery? Am I producing war pornography?” These are the questions that photographer Christoph Bangert, who spent more than ten years working for international magazines in areas of crisis such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Indonesia, Lebanon and Gaza, has asked himself. In his book War Porn, he has collected pictures that are subject to the usual processes of censorship such as the inner censorship of the photographer himself, who cannot remember taking some of the photos in the book. Then there are the journalistic selection processes of editorial offices and publishing media as well as the censorship that takes place within viewers, who must decide and overcome themselves if they want to look at these pictures.
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