They do not want to see the ground littered with bodies of young children. These drastic measures will cause people to shy away from your cause.
The history of Rwanda is a common one. The invasion of the Germans and then the Belgiums, penning two races of people against each other created a deep inward hatred towards each other; two races of people occupying one country that should have lived in peace, together. The Tutsi forcing the Hutu to be their indentured servants; for many years this was the norm that they lived under. However, as with the nature of humans, the Hutu did not take to kindly to this behavior and there was an uprising after the assassination of their president. The Hutu greatly outnumbered the Tutsi so it was not hard to do so, and that was the first genocide Rwanda had faced but it was surely not the last.
With the photo that I have chosen, I want my peers, my teacher, and anyone else who might witness my 'testimony' of sorts, I want them to look at the photograph knowing the history and see the simple complexities involved in it. The photo shows two groups of people. The first group is a woman in dark clothing standing in the shadows with two children, the second shows a woman with several children around her all in bright clothes.
I want them to take away that you do not have to show death and destruction in a photograph for it to be moving. You do not have to show death and destruction to capture someones attention as keep it. The photographer used the lighting in the photo to show the distinct differences between the two groups and the cultural history lying just beneath the surface. The fact that he used women and children says that he knew his audience pretty well because people in any area of life can relate to women and children. He utilized pathos in doing that as well. Also, what makes the photograph I chose so moving is that the photographer is only eighteen and his parents were killed by rebel groups in Africa. So it makes the experience in his country all the more real to him on a personal level. With that knowledge and experience, I believe he was able to transfer that into the picture that he took. Looking at the photograph on the outside looking inward, I believe, that we are seeing that horrifying part of Rwanda's history through the eyes of children.
