Photographs are used to document history, however selected images are chosen to do so. Often times these images graphically show the cruelty of mankind. In her book, Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag asks, "What does it mean to protest suffering, as distinct from acknowledging it"" To acknowledge suffering is just to capture it, to point it out and show somebody else that it exists. In order to protest suffering, there has to be some sort of moral decision that what is shown in the photograph is wrong, and a want from the viewer to change that.

Sontag says that throughout history, things focused on in art and history tend to be the "product of wrath, divine or human." There is much art showing the suffering of Christ and the executions of Christian martyrs. These pictures are supposed to bring up emotion strong enough...