Digital images have become so easy to send and collect that major news outlets—the BBC, newspaper websites and Yahoo News—are building slideshows around them (Stop the presses). As well, individuals—creating a kind of electronic folk art—are posting their own collections. And organizations, including many anti-war organizations, have used electronic photo galleries to deepen the understanding of their position. Recently, grassroots speakers have used ad-hoc photo galleries to publicize their version of events. After the WTO riots in Seattle in 1999, indymedia organizers arranged near-spontaneous photo galleries of events in several cities, hanging photos on clotheslines and otherwise displaying them casually. The ongoing exhibit Here Is New York uses many amateur photos taken after 9.11 in New York City to create public occasions to contemplate the tragedies of that day.

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2003-03-15 War Protests Around the World This home-made collage of antiwar protests world-wide has also become a piece of electronic samizdat, forwarded to many address books.

Voices in the Wilderness Project: Bearing Witness in Iraq
Photographer Alan Pogue’s photo essay “Iraq: Under Embargo” calls attention to his project No More Victims, “dedicated to informing the public about the human costs of US foreign policy.”

National Philistine: Baghdad Snapshot Section Printable photos taken by member of the Iraq Peace Team from the streets of Baghdad with a purpose. "Print them out and poster them anywhere and everywhere."