How the pixel became a key feature of drone warfare

Burden of Proof: The Construction of Visual Evidence

The Photographers’ Gallery, until 10 January 2016

I hadn’t really thought much about pixels before, despite spending a large portion of my day looking at them. After all, a pixel is just a tiny unit in a digital image, and we all tend to look at the bigger picture. But how about this: this humble unit has now become a key feature of drone warfare.

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TaggedCrime, drone warfare, Exhibitions, Eyal Weizman, Forensics, Great Terror, Josef Mengele, NGOs, Photographers’ Gallery, Photography, Stalin, Turin Shroud

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How the pixel became a key feature of drone warfare

Photography was once considered an impartial device to investigate crime. Now it’s being used to commit it, as this deliciously macabre Photographers’ Gallery exhibition shows

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