Yet another remarkable edition of The Big Picture from the Boston Globe. Its Congo series includes the shot below of a war-displaced boy wearing an improvised sun hat made from wood and flip-flops. Above, an 8-year-old with machete scars on his head, Faustin Mugisa was "left for dead in a pile of corpses when ethnic Lendu militiamen hacked to death his mother and seven siblings in 2003."
Incredible images.
ReplyDeleteI hope I'm not making too much of this little detail, but "improvised sun hat made of wood and flip-flops" is not at all an adequate description of what that child has on his head. That is quite a beautiful and crafted object-- with that crest like a roman helmet!