ABSTRACT
Security has historically been tied to the protection of state borders from hostile states and governments ensuring that they were not dethroned by domestic "terrorist" enemies. Images enter into the political process of defining security in multiple ways: as proof that this issue is one we should assign the status of security, as representations that are seen as so offensive that they threaten our very being, and as emotional communication that makes insecurity something that real human beings concretely experience. A particular category of security images are those where the image itself is seen as the security act. The radical transformations in communication technologies that have taken place in the last twenty years make it seem like images are everywhere. That everything can be captured and everything can be circulated. This democratises security politics in that it is much harder for governments and others to commit atrocities without someone noticing.
