World Press Photo 12 by Kari Lundelin – review

Violent images won the votes at this year's awards – but they also raise some ethical questions When confronted with scenes of death, television newscasters sometimes resort to the oxymoron: "Too graphic to show." Popular media lack a sense, once conveyed in Christian art, that the dead have something to say to the living. The words memento mori – "remember your mortality" – were in the past