Drones: Insidious, Silent, Distant Killers
Dronestagram: What the Drones See
May 28, 2013ABC News - As insidious, silent, distant killers whose doings crop up in the news often enough so that they’ve become a household concept, drones are far from fully understood.
Drone attacks, until recently, went unconfirmed and unexplained, although their consequences reverberated in foreign lands and policies. President Obama recently announced restrictions on the scale and scope of drone strikes after the killing of four Americans in Yemen in 2009 was confirmed. There are still thousands of drone strikes that have not been officially acknowledged, along with an unknown number of casualties.
James Bridle, an artist and writer, has posted Google Earth images on Instagram of drone strike locations as determined by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which relies on a variety of local and international sources to piece together locations and possible casualties. Bridle points out that the images are of "places most of us will never see. We do not know these landscapes and we cannot visit them."
He hopes that the images will “[make] these locations just a little bit more visible, a little closer. A little more real.”
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