Professor Wendy Lower will explore the impact of shocking images as visual testimony of war and genocide, and as a galvanizing force in the human rights revolution before, during and after the Holocaust. Atrocity photographs are used as evidence in criminal investigations, but they are also creative expressions of perpetrators, victims and bystanders, as documents of violence, suffering and resistance. How do we make sense of them and use them? Have singular images lost their power to inspire humanitarian action in the age of social media and fake news?