The photographic documentation of 11-M as civic demand

Abstract

Shortly after the attacks carried out by the Al Qaeda in Madrid on March 11, 2004 various photogra-phers documented the facts. The photographs were an important part of the so-called "spontaneous shrines" that emerged in the crime scenes. This article gives an iconographic and chronological view about different types of photographs: relief, injured in waiting rooms, the trains, offerings, mergers, demonstrations, authorities and monuments. It shows, as well how the civic movement that emerged spontaneously and December 15 2004 speech read by an association of victims in the Congress of Deputies poses a challenge to the political practic-es carried out by the investigation Commission and claims a high connection between institutionalized political life and citizenship.