2024-07-26

The Diminishing Returns Of Dead Babies

• Images of dead children are used to raise awareness of humanitarian disasters but a saturation point is quickly reached where an additional dead baby doesn’t move the needle on someone’s opinion.
• The difference between someone seeing 999 or 1000 dead babies probably rounds to nil yet we continue to push these images forward in the name of ‘awareness’.
• A perverse form of fetishisation can occur where people curate for the most impactful dead baby, is it face down, is the mother wailing, is there blood (but no gore, please be respectful). With the buying and selling of image rights we have essentially created a market for dead baby photos.