Overview
- Pérez-Reverte presented Enviado especial and a companion exhibition of his 1974–1985 war photographs at the Ateneo de Madrid as part of the PhotoEspaña festival.
- He said the chronicles and pictures in the project would not be published now because editors try to avoid hurting sensitivities.
- The show includes graphic scenes, including closeups of the dead and an image of a soldier pressing his boot on a man he had just killed.
- He traced a shift to voluntary newsroom restraint to the 1990s and argued many readers now reject pictures that show blood and death.
- He warned that AI makes images easier to fake, which weakens trust in visual evidence, and said he left war reporting and would not return, presenting the book as the wartime biography that shaped novels like Captain Alatriste.