Never Again, Again, Again... is a powerful photographic essay with text on the six major genocides that have taken place in the 20th and 21st centuries: Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Darfur. It is the first photographic publication dealing with all six genocides, including photographs by the author, other contemporary photographers and archival images. The book is not just a litany of the locales, dates and death tolls, but also an unforgettable view of the victims, the perpetrators, and the consequences. How does it happen? Why does it happen? Why does it even exist in our 21st century? It is murder perpetrated by cowards and bullies who do it for the most shameful excuse that exists—because they can.
In 1915, one and one half million Armenians were eliminated by the Ottoman Turks; in 1994 one million Rwandans were slaughtered with machetes in eight weeks; in four years the Khmer Rouge turned Cambodian rice paddies into the ash of mass graves holding almost two million souls; 7,000 civilians were murdered in Sarjevo and overnight, 6,000 fathers, sons and husbands in Srebrenica; and after four years of bloodshed the death toll in Darfur may have reached 300,000. Montgomery’s photographs are accompanied by text from scholars and leading activists for human rights, as well as by excerpted text from authors familiar with the regions and those who have experienced the horror.
In 1915, one and one half million Armenians were eliminated by the Ottoman Turks; in 1994 one million Rwandans were slaughtered with machetes in eight weeks; in four years the Khmer Rouge turned Cambodian rice paddies into the ash of mass graves holding almost two million souls; 7,000 civilians were murdered in Sarjevo and overnight, 6,000 fathers, sons and husbands in Srebrenica; and after four years of bloodshed the death toll in Darfur may have reached 300,000. Montgomery’s photographs are accompanied by text from scholars and leading activists for human rights, as well as by excerpted text from authors familiar with the regions and those who have experienced the horror.
