Rightly, picture editors chose not to show some photos taken at the site. The wreckage itself communicates all we need to knowPicture editors selection of Malaysia Airlines MH17 imagesTelevision cameras at the place where MH17 fell to earth couldnt help panning back to reveal a vast, low-lying landscape of interminable near-nothingness. A roadside cross, dark against a yellow and violet sky, spoke of centuries of quiet farming and rural life interrupted only by the wars that have churned up Ukraines history, the tanks that have rolled across this great empty space with its eerie, Rothkoesque light.Returning to the charred field, …read more
Source: The Guardian
