There are events in human history which irrevocably alter the course of a life, a people and our global family. We have all seen images of the aftermath of cataclysmic natural disasters, but when catastrophe is deliberately imposed by another, there is no measurement for its human toll. Yet among the untold tragedies inflicted on the innocent, there are stories of individuals who have been able to transcend, and even transform these cruelties into expressions of empathic witness and universal relevance. In 1979, the brother of Argentine-born artist Marcelo Brodsky, Fernando Brodsky, was abducted by the Argentine Security Forces operating under the military government who were installed to power following the violent coup of March 1976. From an affluent Jewish family, Fernando Brodsky was known to be involved in socialist causes, and was “disappeared” among close to 30,000 persons … [Read more...] about SHOOTING FOR PEACE: BRODSKY’S PHOTOS BRING MOVEMENT TO KEENE STATE