his camera was a weapon only for the truth

Another day, another exhibition. This one was by Nick Danziger at the Imperial War Museum, documenting the way in which women are affected by war. Danziger photographed and interviewed 11 women in 2001 and then went back to find them 10 years later. 
The rest of the museum was interesting, too - I haven't been here for 40 years. I spent an hour and a half in the thorough and sobering floor devoted to the Holocaust. 
I was struck by how important photographs are as a record of war. The dangers of reporting on conflicts are great, however - between 1992 and 2015, 236 journalists have been killed while doing just that.
One of them was Fadel Shana, who survived an attack on this Land Rover in 2006 but was killed in Gaza in 2008  while working as a cameraman for Reuters. His Editor-in-Chief said that "his camera was a weapon only for the truth".

On this day of violent attacks in Brussels, the words of the Dalai Lama on the pillar in The Peace Garden of the War Museum are ever more important (see extra).

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