Some very striking images. The boy and wire shot just took my breath away. And the "Marbles and Eid" too -- the expression on the boy's face! Terrific stuff.
As a historian, I won't comment on the "change" except to say that documenting the present is a valuable activity in and of itself ... if only so that future people can see how we all lived and died. But even beyond that function I believe that there is a more positive contribution as well. It's easy to be pessimistic and say that nothing changes, but fact is such pessimism rests on an unproven assumption: that things would be the same without such witnesses. In fact, we cannot know how much WORSE things could / would be if there weren't people recording the tragedies as they occur -- I tend to believe things could be much, much, much worse without such witnesses. This is, however, equally unprovable ... a statement of belief. The pessimistic viewpoint, however, strikes me as an all too easy beard for comfortable complacency: no need to even admit the "truth" of such records, let alone actually do anything.
