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War Photographer

A photographer develops his war pictures at home. The readers will not care.

3 key quotes from War Photographer, by Duffy. Learn this one first: “A hundred agonies in black and white” (Duffy, War Photographer).

This poem in five words

Photographerdevelopspainreadersforget

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The quotes

3 big quotes in this poem.

A hundred agonies in black and white

Duffy · War Photographer · conflict · memory

A hundred photos of pain. The editor will pick five or six.

spools of suffering set out in ordered rows

Duffy · War Photographer · conflict · memory

The film rolls in his darkroom. Suffering, filed neatly.

they do not care

Duffy · War Photographer · conflict

The readers look at his photos over breakfast and forget. The last words of the poem.

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