This powerful photograph was taken Sunday November 13, 2005 in Freetown, Sierra Leone by Greek photojournalist, Yannis Kontos. In his portfolio the description states:
Young Abu, 7, buttons his father’s collar in the family’s shelter in the amputee camp, northwest of Freetown on November 13, 2005. Abu Bakarr Kargbo, 31, was one of the thousands of amputees afflicted by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) atrocities during the civil war that devastated Sierra Leone from 1991 till 2002.
I can’t help but feel moved by everything about this shot, the intimacy, the context, the expressions, the care and the silence. I am captivated by the eyes, particularly the father’s. A genuine and simple moment of human interaction is laid absolutely bare for the viewer, but it is also charged with so much emotion.
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