Introduction
The groups emerged with PhotosweeperX sometimes concerned the same event but shown with different photos. We therefore wanted to find all the images connected to the same event in order to find the most relevant facts. To do this, we first started from the groups made with PhotosweeperX and later went through the entire corpus manually. We thus came to define six iconic events:
- Alan Kurdi
- The illegal entry
- The clash on the rails
- The horde
- Petra Lazlo
- The big boat
For each of these events, we found in the corpus different photos portraying different moments of the same event, but also different photos representing the same moment, either from different angles or with different focuses. Some images were even retouched. To highlight these differences, the photos related to the same event were placed in a timeline in order to “recreate what happened”. Moreover we wanted to show any photo modification and cut that the actors decided to apply to the same image.
The images chosen by each actor can tell us something about their tendency to give prominence to some issues rather than others when talking about the same event. This is why we went ahead and extrapolated, from the images’ links, titles and captions associated with them. These headlines were then translated into English by Google Translate. Almost every headline reported either the term refugee or migrant inside. Since the dichotomy between these two terms has emerged from the beginning of this research, we wanted to measure their relationship in each iconic event.
