“The Battle for Kobane (03)” glitch 4th°, 1282x489px, 2014 (original photo AFP / photographer unknown)
“The Battle for Kobane” is a glitch art series that deals with the close relation mass media has with war. Let’s be honest: war brings us the most shocking, intense, horrifying, glorious and also beautiful images there are. You could paraphrase that war is the father (or mother) of all sujets since the earliest paintings and relief’s where about war and conflict. But that was in the old days when imagery was propaganda…
“The Battle for Kobane (02)”glitch 4th°, 850x318px, 2014 – original photo AFP / Aris Messinis
The mass-media-magnifying-glass this week focusses on Kobane. A small town in northern Syria that is only relevant to it because it is visible from a safe distance / border (with Turkey).
The Battle for Kobane (04) glitch 2nd°, 580x356px, 2014 original photo AFP / Aris Messinis
Hundreds of cities have been ravaged by fundamentalism in Syria and Iraq in these last months, no camera was present, newspapers & TV where slow to realize the tragedy that was going on. It was such a nice summer. But that’s how modern day mass media work. The need an iconic subject, a small world to exemplify and explain the big world to us…
“The Battle for Kobane (01)” glitch 4th°, 800x533px, 2014 (original photo Getty Images / photographer unknown)
