"Is a camera poetics that can be weaponized? Or a weapon cursed by poetics?" 

- An-My Lê

Human violence is as old as humanity. The way we understand violence is a product of our surroundings, as the way we are taught grows to inform our ontologies. Means associated with violence can at once achieve the ends of repression, expression, connection, or perhaps all at once, depending on the way the viewer has learned to see.