This is strange.
When I saw this photograph in the
New York Times back in February, I was struck by its depiction of catastrophic suffering, but also by how we might gloss over it because of its resemblance to countless CGI scenes of swarms of people to which we have become nonplussed.
So I immediately clipped it and posted on one of my end-caps, and scrawled "Not CGI" on it.
Then, in this week's Times, there is
this article about how, after going viral on Twitter, its authenticity has been questioned! A spokesman for the United Nations photograph said, "he was stupefied by the expressions of doubt about the photo. At the
same time, Mr. Gunness said, the skepticism may partly reflect a
blindness by many people to what is happening in Syria, which entered
its fourth year of war this month."
Might be CGI numbness, too.
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