Fotografiar al otro, fotografiar al mal. Los 'terroristas islamistas' en la prensa española tras los atentados del '11M'

This article takes an anthropological perspective on analyzing the role of photography in constructing representation of “Islamic terrorist” by focusing on the press “profiles” of suspects of the Madrid attack on March 11, 2004. The published photographs, reifications of a particular bodily hexis, are central to the analysis of the genesis of stereotypes about the “dangerous”, in which ethnic characteristics acquire central importance. The analysis of the profiles constitutes the starting point for understanding the social construction of identities, approaching the reconfiguration of limits between the “we” attacked and the radical “other” embodied by the “Islamic terrorist” type.