Photos as agents of change.

• Author: Alcan, Bruce H.
• Position: Upront - Letter to the Editor

Thank you for your thought-provoking article on Daniel Hernandez Salazar. I would like to see more stories on photojournalists. They occupy a special niche for those of us who live in such a busy world that sound bites have become our daily diet. Fortunately, those he presents are healthy morsels.

Some might criticize Salazar for being too shocking, but I think he needs to shout to get iris message across. One doesn't have to look too far for similar images that have changed the world. The image of Jesus on the cross had a powerful effect on millions of people and the history of the world for thousand of years. Much more recently the pictures of abuses in the prisons of Iraq have induced millions of people to face and...