






war porn
Designed by
Teun van der Heijden,
Chiho Bangert, Klaus Kehrer
12x16 cm
192 pages
ISBN 978-3-86828-497-3
May 2014
KEHRER Verlag
currently out of print
Do I exploit my subjects? Is it morally justifiable to work as a photographer in war zones and disaster areas? Why are we all so attracted to images of other people’s misery? Am I producing War Porn? As a photographer covering conflicts and natural disasters for international publications, Christoph Bangert (b. 1978) is regularly confronted with a dilemma: On the one hand he tries to document events as truthful to his own experience as possible but on the other hand he needs to accommodate several layers of self-censorship. The first layer of self-censorship is located inside of his own brain. Bangert has no recollection at all of taking some of the pictures seen in the book. The second layer of self-censorship is executed by the publications he works for, the third layer is the viewer’s. Using his images taken during the past ten years in Afghanistan, Iraq, Indonesia, Lebanon, and Gaza, Bangert started an experiment: What would happen if we suppressed our need for self-censorship for once? The result is a raw, intense, mysterious, brutal and at times maybe a shocking and controversial book. It is as highly personal as it is honest in its quest for an alternative view of our world.
[Awards]
Shortlisted Aperture PhotoBook Awards 2014
Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2014
[Press English]
International New York Times
The New York Times Lens Blog
British Journal of Photography
Annebelle (Magazine)
L'Ascenseur Vegetal (Book Store)
Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma
L'Oeil de la Photographie
Eyes Open Magazine
octagon.editingstandard.com
Raw View Magazine
[Press German]
ZEIT online
Spiegel ONLINE
SRF Kulturplatz (TV)
Deutsche Welle (Web)
Radio Corax (Radio)
DRadio Wissen (Radio)
Deutschlandradio Kultur Kompressor (Radio)
Tagesanzeiger (Zeitung)
PHOTONEWS (Magazin)
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (Zeitung)
fotointern (Magazin)
Kwerfeldein.de
Munich Media Watch
Hannoversche Allgeimeine Zeitung
Schwäbische Zeitung
d'Lëtzebuerger Land
Greenpeace Magazin
ZEIT Campus
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
Nürnberger Zeitung
Rhein Neckar Zeitung
The European
Photo International
De Morgen
foto Magazin
Galore (Magazin)
Deutschlandfunk (Radio)
FotoTV.
Dbate.de
Medium Magazin
Qantara
taz
Badische Zeitung
Camera Magazin
Die Zeit online
Zeit Magazin
Kritisch Lesen
Neon Magazine
Digital Photo Magazin
Die Zeit
[Press International]
De Correspondent (Dutch)
Maledetti Fotografi (Italian)
6 Mois (French)
Ny Tid (Norwegian)