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Sight Unseen

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

History, Science, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Society & Culture

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

As the attacks were unfolding on the Capitol, a steady stream of images poured onto our screens. Photo editor Kainaz Amaria tells us what she was looking for--and seeing--that afternoon. And she runs into a dilemma we've talked about before. In December of 2009, photojournalist Lynsey Addario, in was embedded with a medevac team in Afghanistan. After days of waiting, one night they got the call - a marine was gravely wounded. What happened next happens all the time. But this time it was captured, picture by picture, in excruciating detail. Horrible, difficult, and at times strikingly beautiful, those photos raise some questions: Who should see them, who gets to decide who should see them, and what can pictures like that do, to those of us far away from the horrors of war and those of us who are all too close to it? Episode Notes: To hear Kainaz Amaria talk more about the filter, check out:  this post on ethical questions to consider around the sharing of images of police brutality and her interview on On The Media about the double-standard in many U.S. newsrooms when it comes to posting graphic images.  Special thanks to Chris Hughes and Helium Records for the use of Shift Part IV from the album Shift Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at Radiolab.org/donate.

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You're listening to Radio Lab.

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Radio Lab.

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From W. N. Y.

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C.

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See?

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Yeah.

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I'm Lulu Miller. This is Radio Lab. And today we're going to start with,

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Lulu. I'm just, I'm just recording your furious typing, a very busy photo editor. My name is Kynas Amaria,

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and I am the visuals editor at Vox.com. Are you exhausted?

0:41.2

Were you up late? Uh, yeah, I got to say I'm not very lucid. I caught her in this kind of

0:48.2

leery moment because the afternoon before, January 6th, she had been sitting in her DC apartment, doing her visuals editor

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thing, TV on.

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We were covering the vote count.

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Watching the live feed of the Senate floor.

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And we knew that the protest was happening.

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Keeping an eye on the photos coming in through Twitter.

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Crowds getting closer and closer to the Capitol building.

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