2026 marked the 15th edition of MIA Photo Fair BNP Paribas, Italy's leading photography fair. It was founded in 2011 as a fair for contemporary photography and was in the…
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Photography has been used to document wars since the American-Mexican War of 1846-48, when daguerreotypes were used.
Of course, it was the Crimean War of the 1850s that was…
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