Jack Picone - Food Drop - #26
© Photograph by Jack Picone
Children wait for an aide agency to deliver food during the civil war in Somalia. Baidoa, Somalia.
Children wait for an aide agency to deliver food during the civil war in Somalia. Baidoa, Somalia.
OMG! how terrifying ...
ReplyDeleteIt was Béatrice and tragically (esp. for the kids) remains so today....
DeleteVery powerful shot
ReplyDeleteThank you Eva. Even though the razor while could be a metaphor for danger, separation, etc. it is interesting to see the palpable anticipation in the kids, a kind of -- hope -- even if it was just for the next meal...
Deleteincredible shot, Jack. And right in the heart of the frame of barbed wire the little boy mirroring the binoculars that are probably used by soldiers??- you really created this further sense of the kids being subjected to a punitive surveillance in being fed!!
ReplyDeleteThank you Efi. It was one of the few images from Somalia that feel comfortable about posting. The rest are pretty grim. The aesthetic and the emotion the kids communicate seems to reflect a modicum of pending hope. Albeit it, that it is just for the next meal.
DeleteYes, it is nasty stuff Lucy....
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