Saturday, May 7, 2011

'The accident ....'

 Samar,  5 years old, screaming and splattered in blood after American soldiers opened fire on her family’s car in the northern town of Tal Afar, Iraq..
Via Angry Arab:""[Ali] He says Samar’s 8-year-old brother, Muhammad, talks to himself when he is alone. 'When we go out and see a family, they get sad,' he said. Sometimes he finds the children in a room together, crying. 'When they remember the accident, it’s like they just died'...

1 comment:

seth edenbaum said...

What people refuse to talk about (and I'm reminded of this since the photographer was killed recently and is being mourned by many) is that this photograph itself is an immoral act.

Would you have taken it?

Photojournalism is hackwork at best.