An image depends radically on context, on how it is placed but also on who is looking at it. Susan Sontag observed: “The frankest representations of war, and of disaster-injured bodies, are of those who seem most foreign, therefore least likely to be known. With subjects closer to home, the photographer is expected to be more discreet.”

— Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things, Faber & Faber, Ch. Against Neutrality, 2016