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I will comment a Alfredo Jaar's photo. This photo is called The Nduwayezu’eyes, this photo is part of an art's instalation called The Ruanda project. Jaar is an architect, but his work is a social criticism about the consumism the capitalism, the United States's hegemony, the war and other things. His criticism is through a visual work in public spaces in the city. So, this photo in particular, shows the boy`s eyes whose parents died in the Ruanda's war. Jaar doesn`t take a photograph of dead people, or blood. No, he only catches eyes that denounce to all the deaths and the international indefference in front of african's problem, because this war was a big genocide of a tribe against the other.

I like this photo because in the instalation, there is on a table too many slides, and in each table's corner there is a magnifying glass, so the spectator waits to find or to see in the slides some cruel image, but the persons find eyes that see them, and ask them. This photo challenges to tipical images about a war, and it shows more far, shows the melancholy, the impotence, the silence of an orphan child that didn`t say nothing to a photographer, only saw him.