Ken Jarecke is a Photographer and captured a hard truth about war and was either censored or not even show to the public. This piece was called 'Death of an Iraqi Soldier' and there was a lot of controversy over it and whether it was acceptable or not. The picture was in colour so it made the image more graphic and disturbing to look at, which deemed too sensitive and graphic to the editors and so it went unseen in the US, however it was published in the UK by the London Observe but caused a fuss due to the nature of the photograph. Some publishers made the photograph black and white to obscure the graphic horrors the photo brought across in colour. What people didn't think about was that this is want the photo wanted you to feel and it wanted people to ask themselves if this is what they want from war and want to get involved in. Ken Jarecke shows this by writing a message on the photograph saying "If I don't photograph this, people like my mom will think war is what they see on T.V." so this proves that war is being hidden from the public and the truth is being obscured by censoring that we see.
In animation, censorship is being pushed to its limit or even pushed over the limit, and even used as another form of media which might be acceptable to use when approaching a more controversial subject. A good example of this is the work of Michele Cournoyer and her animation called "The Hat", which is about an erotic dancer who recalls incidents from her past with an abusive male. This animation was quite inappropriate and explicit because Michele wanted it to show the pain the woman went through in the story. This is a tough animation to watch because it makes you feel uncomfortable through out but then again it's supposed to.
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