The World Press Photo of the Year 2006 shows upscale young Lebanese men and women visiting a bombed-out Beirut neighborhood like disaster tourists — or at least that’s what everyone thought. Bissan Maroun, one of those featured in the photograph, told SPIEGEL ONLINE the true story.
Time to bust out the "assume" trichotomy again. On the other hand, you have to assume something when looking at reportage photography… I guess we just need to keep an open mind and not address those assumptions as fact.
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