Introduction: The violence of the image
Part I: Framing civil and (post- ) colonial conflict
The incorruptible Kodak : photography, human rights and the Congo Campaign / Christina Twomey
'Follow the Americans' : Philip Jones Griffith's Vietnam War trilogy / Liam Kennedy
The violence of the image : conflict and post-conflict photography in Northern Ireland / Justin Carville
Dispelling the myth of invisibility : photography and the Algerian Civil War / Joseph McGonagle
Part II: Politics and photographic ethics at the turn of the century
The myth of compassion fatigue / David Campbell
Infra-destructure / Ariella Azoulay
Watching war evolve : photojournalism and new forms of violence / Robert Hariman
Part III: The 'unstable' image : photography as evidence and ambivalence
Photo-reportage of the Libyan conflict / Stuart Allan
Witnessing precarity : photojournalism, women's/human/rights and the war in Afghanistan / Wendy Kozol
The forensic turn : bearing witness and the 'thingness' of the photography / Paul Lowe
Ruins and traces : exhibiting conflict in Guy Tillim's Leopold and Mobutu / Caitlin Patrick.