Award-Winning Photo Puts Subjects On Defensive by Gert Van Langendonck
From the website: Spencer Platt never knew who the people in his picture were. He wants it known that he never meant to judge them. "I never talked to them. For all I knew, they might have lost members of their family. Noone was immune to hardship in that conflict. And I certainly didn't mean to make a political statement, as some have said. My fixer, Wafa, was of a very similar type to the people in the car, and her life had been turned upside down by the war." In the end, he says, "What I think this image partly asks us, the viewer, is to challenge our stereotypes of victims of war."
