From left to right: Dutch director Joris Ivens, Ernest Hemingway and Ludwig Renn, chief of staff in the International Brigades, in a photo taken at the beginning of 1937, during the Spanish Civil War.
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Many images from the Ukraine war are compelling and distressing depictions of the human costs of war.
Terrified children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, center, near Trang Bang, Vietnam, after a South Vietnamese plane on June 8, 1972, accidentally dropped its flaming napalm on its own troops and civilians.
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The ‘Napalm Girl’ photo is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. It also shows how false assertions can get traction in the media.
John Liebenberg in the ransacked hospital in Cubal, Angola, in 1993.
Photographer unknown/Courtesy the Liebenberg family
No other photographer in southern Africa has documented war in the way that John Liebenberg did. He captured the life and the conflict of both sides in his body of work.