They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing. - Errol Morris

One of the incredibly deep ironies is that the [Abu Ghraib] photographs could serve as both an exposé and as a cover-up. That they would encourage people not to look any further and make them think they had seen everything.

The fact that photographs are silent is only one reason why we mistakenly assume they aren’t saying anything.

Quite often photographs gain power from what is omitted from the frame rather than from what is included.