Art as War Testimony and Survival Manual

Modernity has reworked portraiture in various new contexts, introducing critical, social and political themes. One form of contemporary portraiture is the collective representation of an entire population through a cross-section of social, ethnic, political and other identities. The people portrayed are no longer subject to stylization to guide the reading of status and other elements indicative of it are included. On the one hand, the contemporary character is often characterized by outside the box compositions, unexpected locations, experimental use of light and raw, simple posing that captivates the viewer. Sometimes this composition and both modernist and classical shots escape the frame.

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