This chapter foregrounds the function of photographic tropes in conflict journalism and how press photography acts as a site of mediatized politics. This chapter follows three case studies of press photographs of violence interrogating the portrayal of post-violence trauma to analyse if gender is a key component in the formulation of the respective news discourses. “Feminising grief”, and “personal grief as public spectacle” are two common press photography tropes employed by both the regional and the national press in their coverage of conflict-induced violence from the northeast region of India. Images of women and children as victims of violence, regularly function as the standard template for “feminising grief” and converting private moments of grief and mourning into a journalistic ritual of public spectacle. Long-held cultural beliefs about the social roles men and women typically perform within a society are reasserted and reinforced by the gendered visual construction of the grief narrative by the media. Visual framing of news remains a relatively under-researched area in India, though press photographs and other visuals are widely used to “enhance” the magnitude of conflicts. Press photographs are used to create visual narratives of conflict and build mental models. Such news images could carry cues about power relations and, hence, can be analysed critically. Selecting three cases of violence in Northeastern India, this chapter examines the photographs published in four frontline national newspapers to identify frames and patterns. Study findings suggest visual frames are used for feminisation (or gendering) of grief and to showcase personal grief as a public spectacle, defining events, actors, causes and effects and reshaping the perceptions about the “victims” and “perpetrators” in that conflict.