ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the way in which eyewitness images pose counter-narratives to the narratives communicated or sanctioned by military and political administrations. The non-professional pictures gaining public attention typically undermine the tight regulations of images during conflict. Still more visuals enter the media circuit, which in pre-digital times would have been subjected to censorship, press self-censorship, 1 or not recorded and distributed at all. In agreement with the dynamics of mediatized conflict outlined in chapter 3, competing ways of communicating conflict are negotiated in the mainstream news media, which make up the primary platform for political and military institutions to inform the public and an important outlet for eyewitness images.
