power of photography has humanized an atrocity that until that point felt far, far away. so i will again warn you that some of the images i m about to show you are disturbing. but you have likely seen many of them before. it brings to mind the photo of the little girl crying at the border that brought renewed attention to the trump administration s policy of forced family separations. or the tragic photo of 2-year-old allen occurredy whose little body on the beach became the grueling face of the syrian civil war. it was this of a young man named kirby n on his death bed that ge a face to hiv/aids. it was this photo of a young boy who was murdered in south africa that brought international attention to the horrors of apartheid. photos have of course marked inflection points in wars, too. the american civil war was the first large scale conflict after thefi invention of cameras. photos of ante tum showed the