Psychologists have demonstrated how photos that depict migrants as large, faceless groups can influence the political behaviour of the people who view them.
During the Syrian refugee crisis of 2015-16, the Western media was saturated with images of people on the move: huddled on beaches wrapped in foil blankets, crammed on to dangerously overloaded boats or tramping across Balkan fields. The majority of these photos were medium- to long-view shots of large groups of people, according to analysis of the mainstream media in Australia, UK, US and Germany.
