ISIS, that much feared, reviled, celebrated, media-savvy and somewhat phantasmagoric entity, “promotes itself much less through a coherent ideology than via the equivalent of an aggregated, gigantic snuff-selfie,” writes Peter Harling in A Brief Visual...

"Looking at their faces, or knowing their names, in no way is an affirmation of their lives or their deeds, but only an acknowledgment of what unfortunately exists."

The ubiquity of smartphones is changing our democracy, but does it give us a license to photograph and publish everything?

"Neither a person nor a photograph should be taken at face value; it is more complicated than that"