ABSTRACT
‘Photography has kept company with death ever since cameras were invented, in 1839’ (Sontag 2003: 21). As war is mass-produced death, photography has produced iconic images of the major war-time conflicts of the twentieth century, including the pictures of Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald and Dachau after the camps were liberated in 1945, the photographs taken following the incineration of the populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the photographs of executions and napalm bombings during the Vietnam War. Another close companion of war, though not in broad public view through the lens of the camera until the last two decades, is sexual violence. 2
