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Given the influence of images, each warring nation established official photographers and filmmakers tasked with producing propaganda and documentation. The British, for instance, employed Ernest Brooks as their first official war photographer. Brooks, who was a photographer for the Daily Mirror—Britain’s first newspaper to regularly publish photographs—joined the military reserve in 1915 amidst a shortage of experienced photographers. His assignments took him across the Western Front, Gallipoli, Italy, and naval operations, where he captured scenes meant to bolster national morale.