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Marc Riboud. Washington DC. 1967. An American young girl, Jan Rose KASMIR, confronts the American National Guard outside the Pentagon during the 1967 anti-Vietnam march. This march helped to turn public opinion against the US war in Vietnam. Image from magnumphotos.comMarc Riboud. Washington DC. 1967. An American young girl, Jan Rose KASMIR, confronts the American National Guard outside the Pentagon during the 1967 anti-Vietnam march. This march helped to turn public opinion against the US war in Vietnam. Image from magnumphotos.com
A crisis in photojournalism has arisen in the last few years. Esteemed photojournalists have come forward to suggest that their life’s work is worthless, implying that imagery around war and misery serve no purpose in a world so conditioned by violence. Concerns around digital manipulation and biased reportage coupled with the lack of confidence in global media outlets have weakened the reputation of the once respected area of the press, with image overload due to camera accessibility also contributing to the problem. The photo reporters are defeated by the idea that wars will continue regardless of their efforts to bring about awareness. This idea however, is a cynical one. “Photography cannot change the world,” French photographer Marc Riboud once said, “but it can show the world, especially when it changes”. Although documentation of tragedies can never undo the acts that lead to the occurrence, there is a definite importance in bringing issues to the fore and creating a discussion around them. This is true of Riboud’s iconic image of Jan Rose Kasmir, a demonstrator during the 1967 anti-Vietnam war march at the Pentagon. The photograph, which shows the young girl holding a flower to the National Guards guns, has become one of the most iconic shots in all the reportage of the Vietnam War, and has preserved Kasmir as a symbol of peace and