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Anyone reading this story is a survivor of the COVID-19 pandemic and is undoubtedly scathed by it in one way or another.The New Survivors, an exhibition now on view at the Three Shadows Photography Art Center in Beijing, explores how traumatic memories are recorded, produced, edited and constructed with new meaning in the system of photography and moving image, and may resonate with many.

From the “first television war” to the algorithmic surveillance of the twenty-first century, Harun Farocki’s filmography turns media back on itself, untangling the work that images are made to do. Unfolding across Hantarex monitors lining the perimeter of this gallery, “Gegen Krieg (Against War)” foregrounds Farocki’s critique of Vietnam-era reporting, though it’s printed matter, not broadcast, that comes under fire here.In Their Newspapers, 1968, Farocki appears in front of the ca...