British photographer Edmund Clark examines the visual language of the global “war on terror” propagated by the American government under George W. Bush after the attacks of September 11th 2001. By describing in words familiar and widely disseminated pictures of this war, thus depriving the images of their context and visuality, he accentuates the extent to which these images are burnt into our memory and have affected our understanding of this conflict. The colour orange became part of this iconography when the first media pictures of prisoners in Guantánamo Bay, clad in orange overalls, appeared in 2002. Since 2014, this pictorial language has been cited in ISIS propaganda films showing prisoners likewise clad in orange.
video, 5:19 minutes
Orange Screen was made in collaboration with Max Houghton.
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