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Disturbing images at Geneva exhibition

This content was published on Dec 1, 2002 They include images of emaciated faces, sunken eyes, barbed wire, watchtowers and heaps of skeletal bodies. Although museum spokeswoman Catherine Zimmermann concedes that some photographs almost unbearable to look at, the intention is not to shock. “This material is difficult, painful and sometimes unbearable,” she says, “and constantly raises the question as to whether it…