no caption, no credits

Check out this post from the New York Times about a photography exhibit by Israeli and Palestinian photographers. It attempts to focus on the image and letting the viewer decide what they are looking at by removing the photo credits and captions. Having traveled to Israel on 4 occasions and witnessed the tension and war first hand, it great to see that photojournalists on both sides have come together to create this show. It's true that our mind may create an alternate reality or jump to conclusions about what is happening in an image before we read the caption. In some cases it is a good thing to form our own ideas about what we are looking at, but in other cases, it highlights our own prejudices or misconceptions about an issue or group. Either way, it's an interesting experiment. As you may imagine, many of the images are very graphic in nature.