Andrea Bruce’s Photographs From Refugee Camps in Afghanistan

Uncovering the Sadness of Young Deaths

At a refugee camp in Afghanistan, the photographer Andrea Bruce and the reporter Rod Nordland found it hard not to feel a sense of personal responsibility.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/uncovering-the-sadness-of-young-deaths/?pagewanted=all

Inside the family hut, only women and close male relatives were allowed to mourn over the body of the baby boy, Khan Mohammad, who had died earlier that morning. After Andrea Bruce, on assignment for The New York Times, bent over double and eased her way through the low door of the hut, she counted 17 women, including the mother, plus the boy’s 10-year-old sister Feroza, and the father, in a one-room house no larger than a normal-size bedroom. It was, she said, even colder inside than outside, where at least there was the weak morning sun.