Photo of Salvadoran refugees shows power of still images
(WorldNews Entertainment)

NEW YORK (AP) - From Bosnia to West Africa, she has witnessed tragedy. But the photo of two drowned Salvadoran refugees this week still left Corinne Dufka in shock. “It’s horrific,� Dufka, an associate director at Human Rights Watch, says of the picture, which shows a father and his 23-month old daughter dead, face down in the Rio Grande. “Photojournalism is full of images which have illuminated the gravity of a situation, made it less possible to ignore it or spurred both ordinary people and policy makers to action.� In a world of unremitting information and video-driven chaos, the still photograph is an older and perhaps seemingly limited medium. But a...