War Photo Limited, Dubrovnik, 14th May 2014

We'd been keeping a pretty close eye on the weather forecast and were trying to save a couple of museums that we wanted to visit for the "rainy day" that we knew inevitably would come.

I guess I'm glad it did rain, because if it hadn't we may never have visited War photo Limited and that would have been a shame. Although the museum has had exhibitions relating to the Yugoslav wars and still has a small collection of those photos currently the main exhibition is photographs by Narcisco Contreras from the war in Syria.

I think with 24 hour news on the TV to a certain extent we can become a little bit desnsitised to "graphic images". So I was a little bit surprised at how much of an affect some of these photos had. This could have been because we were in quiet rooms and forced to take in the pictures rather than them just being on the TV in the background, or maybe it was partly because of the skill of the photographer. 

I was reminded of something the first world war poet Wilfred Owen said:
"Above all I am not concerned with Poetry.
My subject is War, and the pity of War.
The Poetry is in the pity."

There is certainly pity in these photos.

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