Cruel timing: Photographer Joao Silva lost both legs in a mine explosion in Afghanistan over the weekend. And I happen to be teaching a unit on war photography in my visual politics class this Thursday. Still a dangerous, dangerous profession.

Cruel timing: Photographer Joao Silva lost both legs in a mine explosion in Afghanistan over the weekend. And I happen to be teaching a unit on war photography in my visual politics class this Thursday. Still a dangerous, dangerous profession.

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Cruel timing: Photographer Joao Silva lost both legs in a mine explosion in Afghanistan over the weekend. And I happen to be teaching a unit on war photography in my visual politics class this Thursday. Still a dangerous, dangerous profession.

Cruel timing: Photographer Joao Silva lost both legs in a mine explosion in Afghanistan over the weekend. And I happen to be teaching a unit on war photography in my visual politics class this Thursday. Still a dangerous, dangerous profession.

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Visual Politics: All things visual in public life. Presented by Cara Finnegan, scholar, teacher, rhetoric geek. Lover of photography, art, print culture, politics, and troublemakers.

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