The Background: A massive, terrifying wall of churning white water and debris—the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami—is violently roaring into a tropical beach resort. Palm trees are snapping, and the sheer power of the ocean is swallowing the coastline in a chaotic blur of foam.The Foreground: On a hill overlooking the beach, completely safe from the water's reach, a tourist sits at an outdoor infinity pool. They have their smartphone or digital camera raised, carefully aligning a landscape shot of the horizon. They are looking at the disaster strictly through a tiny digital screen, adjusting their settings for the "perfect frame," utterly detached from the life-or-death struggle happening just below. Mehr sehen