Today is the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and students should be aware of the images being used in today's newspapers that represent the horror of that brutal day. As REPRESENTATION is one of the key topics at A2, Year 13 might want to collect material related to 9/11 and use this material for media work later in the course.
One of the most controversial images from this day was a photograph captured by THOMAS HOEPKER. This image was published in 2006 as Hoepker and his employers MAGNUM [the legendary photography agency] believed it too controversial to be published in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Below is a link to an article from the online Guardian that discusses the implications of this image:
Thomas Hoepker discusses his photograph in Slate magazine:
Below is a link to a series of still images captured by photographers on Sept 11th 2001:
Students/media doctors/media anthropologists/ might want to consider why Magnum refused to publish Hoepker's photograph?
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