Who and what shook our world in 2018
The Night Patrol—In a world grown numb and desensitized to the nightly carnage brought down by the Duterte drug war, one group persists in bearing witness: the photographers whose work appears under the rubric “Everyday Impunity.” But for their tenacious efforts, the death toll (they estimate a nightly average of 33, bringing the two-year death count to over 23,000) would simply be obscured by a dark cloud of impunity. Instead, their photographs manage to reclaim a measure of the human worth and dignity that the killers took from their victims.
December 30, 2018
