Child in a war zone, Canadian experience
Photographs of children in the midst of war zones are always incredibly striking, due, I’m sure, to the seemingly paradoxical juxtaposition of innocence and oblivion in the midst of deadly serious battle.
Fortunately, we don’t have many deadly serious battle zones in Canada, and so children-in-war-zone photographs can usually be nicely filed into the ’somewhere else’ category. I think that other worldliness is perhaps why I find this photo, snapped at a Canadian-Afghanistan mission deployment ceremony in Edmonton, so incredibly captivating. Little Mackenzie Graham is completely oblivious to the heaviness of the moment.
(John Ulan/Canadian Press, courtesy CBC News)
