Perspective: This photographer takes on the insane, repetitive nature of war
” , really sums up any and all war coverage, past and present. In bold, black letters on an orange background, these are the words, “History repeats itself and the logic throughout the ages does not change.”From the early days of photographic coverage of war to now, we have shown the same things over and over again, although much of our media coverage has become more sanitized and controlled over the past few decades after the very graphic coverage of the Vietnam War.
In “We Don’t Say Goodbye,” Meloni invites us to accompany him on a 10-year journey he took through Iraq, Syria and Libya that paralleled the rise and fall of the Islamic State as a territorial entity. “The word that kept recurring in my mind was ‘fragmentation,’ because the countries where I worked were all deeply divided by ethnicities, faiths, tribal factions, territories and political affiliations. ‘Fragments’ equally seemed to evoke the violence of war, where people are often killed by shrapnel from explosions. ‘Fragmented’ also seemed to summarise my own view, and visual representations, of the events I had witnessed.
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