Patron Saints of Nothing

by Randy Ribay

In every dead body, I see Jun. I want to look away. But I don’t. I need to know. I need to see it. These photographers didn’t want to water it down. They wanted the audience to confront the reality, to feel the pain that’s been numbed by a headline culture.

And this continues to be true. We're horrified by something for the moments that it dominates the news cycle, but then it shifts to another horrifying thing that allows us to forget the former.