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That, Which Cannot be Told Has to be Shown or, On the Images of Silence

Summary/Abstract: “It would be interesting if someone examined the degree to which global systems of mass-scale coverage serve information and to what degree – silence. Is that, which is said or that, which is passed over in silence, more numerous?” – Ryszard Kapuściński wrote in one of his intervention reportages. In a reference to this question the author of the article embarks upon reflections on what words and images conceal and, first and foremost, what they might reveal. Are texts sufficiently momentous to break silence and are photographs adequately powerful to be capable of overcoming silence? Can the “reflection of light” become an instrument in the battle waged against the aphonia produced by the apparatuses of repression? Is an image remaining in direct contact with the presented capable of disclosing the “concealed” and “unsaid”? Can a photograph be a representation of the “unutterable” and show the “unimaginable”? Is the depicted capable of revealing the “concealed” and “unutterable”? Can the photograph be a representation of the “unutterable” and show the “unimaginable”?

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