New book by Vicente Sánchez-Biosca.

What do the photographs of human humiliation in Abu Ghraib, the Auschwitz album and the photos of prisoners taken by the torturers of the fiercest dictatorships in Chile, Argentina, Brazil or Cambodia have in common?

Beyond their content, they are all "perpetrator images": they embody the point of view of the perpetrators of mass crimes or their accomplices as they consummate their violent acts, while constraining us as spectators to look at the pain of others through the eyes of those who provoked it.

You can purchase the essay on the publisher's website.