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How we chose this week’s image
None of these images seemed vivid enough to capture the shocking drama of the past week or year. So we tried some straightforward news photographs. On the left, a plume of black smoke rising from Beirut. On the right, an image of pure grief. Even images like these, tragically, have become all too familiar.
For a newsier take, we experimented with photographs of Iranian missiles lighting up the night sky over Israel. Some of us thought this was a suitably arresting image. Others thought it focused too much on a single (albeit dramatic) day, whereas our cover story spans a much broader time frame. So in the end we settled on a map of the Middle East, with cracks spreading outwards from Israel and Palestine. With a sharper headline and slight change of colouring, we had a grimly memorable cover.
